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EMA – 4 – MOODLE an international project promoting language learning and intercultural communication Nikiforova Natalia Chair of foreign and Russian languages SUT Saint-Petersburg. E rasmus M undus A ction 4 Moodle. S ix partners : The Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of
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EMA – 4 – MOODLEan international project promoting language learning and intercultural communicationNikiforova NataliaChair of foreign and Russian languagesSUT Saint-Petersburg
Erasmus Mundus Action 4 Moodle Six partners: The Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (Russia), institutions from Brest and Lile (France), Leipzig (Germany), Novosibirsk (Russia) and Zilina (Slovakia).
Duration: December, 2008 – May, 2011 • Aim: to facilitate international students integration into their new study environment • Results: 4 on-line language courses (Russian, French, German and Slovak) and intercultural documents • Target groups: students, language teachers, other personnel
Meeting demands • Students international mobility • Distance learning • Equal opportunities • Intercultural understanding
Creating courses • Shooting original films • Making the lesson template • Creating intercultural documents and exercises
Films • created in each partner country. • show the situations which foreign students have to go through in order to succeed their integration into a new educational system. • serve as the basis of the language learning activities. • are provided with subtitles.
Template • is based on previous experience with Moodle in language courses. • helps to create a multi-media interactive language course on line. • can be changed if other users want to do so. • Template.
Intercultural documents • an on-line attempt to get students to think about cultural differences. • offer intercultural dilemmas. • have no right or wrong answers only different points of view. • serve for quick adaptation.
Post-project plans • The language courses will be available to foreign students, teachers and staff. • Some partner institutions will have tutors for their courses (Russia, France). • The Moodle language lesson template will be available to create other language courses.
This project has been funded with the support of European Commission. EMA-4-Moodle-Server: http://recherche.telecom-bretagne.eu/ema4moodle/ Thank you for your attention!