Lingo+ is an ErasmusPlus project funded by the European Commission. We build an alliance for multilingual and multicultural competences for teachers.
We intend to bridge the gap between schools and teaching in multilingual and multicultural settings creating a set of tools and teaching materials addressed to:
- teachers of foreign languages, as they are on the front line in teaching one or more languages;
-teachers of other subjects that would like to teach in other languages (e.g. CLIL);
-students of all ages, even if we believe our tools will be especially (but not only) implemented by high-schools.
The main objectives of our project are:
- facilitating the acquisition of linguistic and intercultural abilities;
- promoting coordination of lessons, with a view to greater coherence and synergy between the learning of foreign, regional, minority and classical languages, the language(s) of schooling, and also the language dimension of all subjects;
- supporting teachers to acquire the principals of multilingualism and intercultural awareness and learn how to incorporate them in their daily routine;
- developing both dimensions of language (linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic knowledge, skills and existential competences) and cultural (knowledge, skills and existential competencies relevant to social groups who speak a given language and their cultures) competencies;
- develop multilingualism competencies emphasising their social role in terms of employability, social relations and tolerance towards other cultures;
The partnership consists of Amolingua Ltd (Scotland), Euphoria Net (Italy), Cofac Cooperativa de formacao e animacao cultural (Portugal), Budapest Metropolitan Egyetem (Hungary), Istanbul Avrupa Arastirmalari Derneği (Turkey), Krystal Microsoft Academy (England).
This project has received funding from the European+ programme, project reference 2020-1-UK01-KA201-079026