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What is it?. Network of practitioners and stakeholders in language education national agencies, associations of adult education, publishers, international and national chains of language schools individual private language schools in 18 different countries. Aims.
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What is it? • Network of practitioners and stakeholders in language education • national agencies, • associations of adult education, • publishers, • international and national chains of language schools • individual private language schools in 18 different countries ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
Aims • To promote and improve the learning and teaching of languages in adult education • Sharing expertise and best practice • Coming together in joint innovative projects • Disseminating expertise and best practice ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
Key Activities • Networking • Quality Assurance & Certification • Joint Innovative Projects ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
Activities 2010 Teacher Training/Teacher Development • EUROLTA • Redefinition of training scheme and certification • Manual • Procedures • ELTACSEuropean Language Teachers Assessment and Certification • Expert forum in Berlin 4th December • Defining teacher standards ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
Activities 2010 Joint Innovative Projects • Deafport • Production of ELP for the deaf and hearing impaired • Recognition of context • Simplification of descriptors • Diverse European Workplace • Dissemination of intercultural training material through Grundtvig training programmes ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
Activities 2010 Development of ICT learning platforms and tools • Avalon • Second life learning platform for languages • PELLIC Practice Enterprise for Language Learning & Intercultural Communication • Tools for business communication • Let‘sGO • Developing online training courses on how to use e-products ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
2011 • Conference in Winterthur • 25 – 26 March • Challenges of Teaching in a Multilingual Society • Follow up to Deafport ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011
www.deafport.eu www.dew-net.eu www.pellic.eu http://www.leonardo-lets.net/ www.eurolta.eu www.eltacs.eu ECML Professional Network Forum 6th January 2011