Tag: LSP

EU Project ‘CATAPULT’ to launch MOOC and Community of Practice platform for LSP teachers

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The latest developments in the EU Project ‘CATAPULT’ – Computer-Assisted Training And Platforms to Upskill Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Teachers include the revision of its online course (MOOC) and the realisation of the beta version of the project’s Teachers’ Community of Practice (CoP) ‘LinguaCoP’. We can therefore proudly announce the start of the second Read more about EU Project ‘CATAPULT’ to launch MOOC and Community of Practice platform for LSP teachers[…]

CATAPULT project to launch MOOC for upskilling LSP teachers

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Thanks to a great many professionals who responded to our 2018 call to participate in the survey of the “CATAPULT” project (more details about the project below) the project teams has been able to map the needs of (language) teachers with regard to the professional training of LSP teachers in Europe. This has enabled us Read more about CATAPULT project to launch MOOC for upskilling LSP teachers[…]

Latest newsletter from NUT, association of NL & BE University language centres

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Passing on a selected newsitem from the latest newsletter of the Belgian & Dutch Association of academic Language centres ‘NUT’ with a focus on its Jubilee conference in Antwerp. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the NUT, the NUT anniversary conference “Power and splendour of language” took place in Antwerp on 5 April Read more about Latest newsletter from NUT, association of NL & BE University language centres[…]

TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’

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At TELLConsult we strongly support the views expressed in ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’ by the EU Commission ‘European Group on Ethics and New Technologies (EGE)’ to offer upskilling and lifelong learning opportunities of the current workforce for a changing labour market. With innovation in education and language teaching  as our specific focus we Read more about TELLConsult supports views in EU publication ‘Future of Work, Future of Society’[…]

Conferences on Computer Assissted Language Learning in Krakow (Poland) and Milan (Italy) in May 2019

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The Technology Enhanced Language Education Department of the Pedagogical University, Krakow (Poland) is organising its annual PL_CALL conference this year on 30-31 May,  in Krakow. Registration deadline for paper / workshop proposals is January 15. The Call for Papers covers a wide variety of topics including e.g. CLIL, Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Internationalisation. Read more about Conferences on Computer Assissted Language Learning in Krakow (Poland) and Milan (Italy) in May 2019[…]

EU project Catapult’s first activity nearing its goal

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  Great response results so far to CATAPULT’s survey on training needs among teachers involved in discipline specific language teaching & freelance LSP (teacher) trainers. Thanks to an intensive campaign including direct mail and ongoing posts on various social media to interest language teachers to share their views and potential needs for professional training for the Read more about EU project Catapult’s first activity nearing its goal[…]

Calling all LSP teachers & trainers

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Calling all LSP teachers and trainers (Version in Dutch below) Dear colleague, We would like to ask for your contribution to a survey about Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), as part of a European project called CATAPULT . We seek to identify potential needs in the professional training of teachers of LSP & discipline specific communication Read more about Calling all LSP teachers & trainers[…]

Productive Kick-off of the ErasmusPlus project “CATAPULT”, the latest EU project TELLConsult co-initiated.

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After having heard the good news of getting an ErasmusPlus KA2 Grant for the application of the CATAPULT project idea the team came to Paris on September 14 for the kick-off meeting. The coordinator, Cédric Sarré, managed to put us all up at the beautiful CIEP buildings in Pont de Sêvre,          Read more about Productive Kick-off of the ErasmusPlus project “CATAPULT”, the latest EU project TELLConsult co-initiated.[…]

TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes

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We attended and enjoyed the International conference ‘Data-Driven Learning (DDL): a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and #CLIL classes’ in Turin, 27-28 September 2018 https://ddlfl.weebly.com/ The event was intended to provide a bridge between researchers and school teachers. This resulted in a nice mix of interesting academic and practice-based papers & workshops, including e.g. the Read more about TELLConsult contributed OER to conference on big data in language & CLIL classes[…]

Another successful ErasmusPlus project grant application initiated by TELLConsult.

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Skills mismatches: EU businesses are losing millions, and will be losing even more! According to this study, companies in most of the EU’s Member States are witnessing a growing shortage of workers with skills tailored to their needs. As in our project proposal ‘CATAPULT’ we highlighted the language dimension of this issue, we are glad Read more about Another successful ErasmusPlus project grant application initiated by TELLConsult.[…]