Project on the Multilingual and Multicultural Classroom

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The project on the Multilingual and Multicultural Classroom intends to address the challenges of the International University, in which teachers teach and students learn though the medium of a foreign language.

 

The project on the Multilingual and Multicultural Classroom intends to address the challenges of the International University, in which teachers teach and students learn though the medium of a foreign language. More often than not, and especially in Northern Europe, this translates into teaching and learning through English. But in other places, other languages may be used. This project is therefore not only about teaching and learning through the medium of English. The project will (1) identify the competences and skills needed by teachers as well as students in order for them to succeed in such programmes and (2) develop course modules to help them prepare for this teaching or learning experience.

We currently have a Special Interest Group (SIG) under the European Language Council devoted to this topic, and right now we are working on finding a way to apply for funding under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme Call for 2011-13.

If this has caught your attention, and you are interested in learning more about the project, I cordially invite you to a short orientation meeting in Brussels on 1 December at 3:00. This meeting is on the day before many people will make their way to Brussels anyway for the 2010 CEL/ELC Forum on "The Multilingual Challenge: The next generation"

The meeting will take place at the

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB)
T'Serclaes Building, Meeting room A 04-10
Warmoesberg / rue Montagne-aux-Herbes-Potagères 26,
1000 Brussels

If you are interested in the project, please respond via this questionnaire<http://avenquest.advsh.net/skema.htm?ID=idJGDRJeCE6Ww&Skole=asb>. We will then include you on the list of colleagues to be contacted once we know how we may apply under the LLL Programme in 2011.

Karen M. Lauridsen

ISEK / Department of Language & Business Communication &
Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University
Fuglesangs Allé 4
DK-8210 Århus V

T: +45 8948 6619 / +45 4025 6679
M: kml@asb.dk<mailto:kml@asb.dk>