Achizitii in proiect

www.languagesbysongs.eu
(08-GRU-P-LP-54_IS-IT)
Life Long Learning Programme
 Leonardo Da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation
Languages & Integration through Singing

LIS -Languages & Integration through Singing

In order to encourage innovation in education and to facilitate the integration with a view to enhancing and improving communication and intercultural interaction and understanding, LIS project aims at producing, testing, optimising and evaluating teaching material for Italian, Russian and Romanian as foreign languages explicitly using songs, supported by audio-visual materials, multimedia and electronic communication.

The point of departure for the not only didactic but also methodological idea is the use of music and songs in order to promote integration of immigrants and to increase plurilingualism both in the schools and in lifelong learning courses. This approach helps to support an age- and learner-appropriate language learning. In order to encourage innovation in education and to facilitate the integration with a view to enhancing and improving communication and intercultural interaction and understanding, this project aims at producing, testing, optimising and evaluating teaching material for Italian, Russian and Romanian as foreign languages explicitly using songs, supported by audio-visual materials, multimedia and electronic communication. The material, addressed to learners of age 16+, teachers of IT/RO/RU as a second language,  people seeking employment abroad and to individuals providing tourist services, will be accessible through a web portal.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Creation of a web portal in three languages IT, RO, RU which will use interactive techniques and technologies for the management of video and audio streaming. The portal will consist of four parts:

a. Information – general info about the project, objectives, activities, partners and results of the project;
b. Teachers’ area containing: 1) methodological procedures on how to use the song in the classroom to learn a language and guidelines on how to use the didactic material and produce their own; 2) samples of exercises, activities and worksheets with practical suggestions for the language teachers; 3) worksheets sent by the teachers’ community;
c. Learners’ area containing: online samples of songs, video-karaoke, lyrics and lessons of diction that use the songs;
d. Links area containing links to relevant websites (language learning resources, language teaching with music support, radio and TV channels).

Development of the teaching/learning contents:

a. methodological frame, the introduction to the method, the formative and cognitive objectives;
b. elaboration of sample learning materials – themes, vocabulary, grammar content, tests on the language learning aimed at self-assessment of the results by the students, drills taking into consideration the use of karaoke;
c. translation of the contents into the target languages;
d. technical analysis of the linguistic input and defining technical specifications and requirements; development of software and graphic design; development of beta version of the learning units.

A plan for the dissemination of the results in order to make this approach adopted by a large number of teacher training institutions and schools and a strategy for sustainability and follow-up activities

Piloting in the partners’ countries:

- Choosing a suitable audience for piloting (schools and adult training centres etc.);
- Development of piloting schedule;
- Piloting feedback and evaluation;
- Improvement and finalizing of the product with the results of the experimentation.    

A road show in an upper secondary school in Iasi to spread the project ideas and results.

The LIS project has been carried out with the support of the European Community. The content of this material does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Community, nor does it involve any responsibility on its part.