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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[…]

Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education

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This year’s edition of the annual EUROCALL conference took place in Jyväskylä, Finland. Delegates appreciated the excellent (1) organisation of this 4-day event and the great facilities at the University of Jyväskylä, beautifully located at a lake.  TELLConsult, represented by Ton Koenraad, offered  the workshop ‘ Models, strategies and resources produced in EU projects for m-learning pedagogy development and Read more about Open access to our EUROCALL 2018 workshop materials on mobile learning in teacher education[…]

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.[…]

Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University

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This edition, customised  for a school in the Netherlands (more details here), based on our Course #13 ‘Language and teaching skills for the bilingual classroom’ was run as an ErasmusPlus consultancy workshop in July 2018, at Leuven University in Belgium.  The evaluation questionnaire addressed delegates’ appreciation of 7 aspects of the course, namely: course topics related activities Read more about Evaluation results of TELLConsult ErasmusPlus workshop on CLIL at Leuven University[…]

TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes

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TELLConsult  will contribute a workshop on corpus-based learning materials production for CLIL & LSP to the International #conference “Data-Driven Learning: a scaffolding methodology for Foreign languages and CLIL classes”. Based on the e-CLIL components of (one of) our courses on the topic the workshop aims to familiarize delegates with open educational, corpus-based resources, tools and related Read more about TELLConsult to contribute a workshop to the International conference Data-Driven Learning & Foreign languages and CLIL classes[…]

TELLConsult Training requested to run a one-day workshop based on its CLIL courses

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TELLConsult confirmed to run a special workshop based on content from two of its ErasmusPlus Courses, Nrs  4 and 13, dealing with teaching & language skills and the use of ICT tools & strategies to support the CLIL classroom https://www.tellconsult.eu/current-courses This customised session was requested as part of a professional development programme by a Dutch secondary Read more about TELLConsult Training requested to run a one-day workshop based on its CLIL courses[…]

TELLConsult attended and contributed to the TISLID 2018 conference

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On behalf of TELLConsult we presented outcomes & first results relevant for Teacher Education at the #TISLID18 Conference in Ghent, Belgium produced by #Erasmus projects TELLConsult participate (d/s) in. They finished/started last year, involving Interactive Teaching in Languages with Technology (iTILT2, 2015-2017), ‘Designing and Evaluating Innovative Mobile Pedagogies’ (DEIMP, 2017-2020) and ‘Tablets for classroom inclusion Read more about TELLConsult attended and contributed to the TISLID 2018 conference[…]

Special edition of our course on Video in Language Education well received

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Just a brief comment on the evaluation results of TELLConsult’s course ‘Getting more out of Digital Video in Language Education’ commissioned by the Friuli Office of the Italian Ministry of Education for a selected group of Italian teachers/trainers in adult education to also inform themselves about practices in Migrant Education in other EU countries. This Read more about Special edition of our course on Video in Language Education well received[…]

Special edition of our course ‘Getting more out of digital video in language education’

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So requested by the Italian Ministry of Education ( Friuli Office) TELLConsult customised its Erasmus+ course ‘Getting more out of digital video in language education’ , kindly hosted by the University of Valencia (Spain), to accomodate the special interests of a group of Italian teachers in adult education. As these teachers participate in a regional Read more about Special edition of our course ‘Getting more out of digital video in language education’[…]

TELLConsult initiated development of Erasmsus+ KA2 project proposal

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Requested to advise on how to realise a practitioner’s well developed idea to make the offer of work-related language training of LSP teachers more visible for (international) employers, (migrant) job seekers and career improvers we arrived at a successful Erasmus+ KA2 project application submission today (21 March, 2018) in less than 5 weeks (!) All Read more about TELLConsult initiated development of Erasmsus+ KA2 project proposal[…]