Project
Newsletter Issue #
1 - April 2022
Editorial
Welcome
to the first issue
of a newsletter devoted to the
project "Romance Languages for
Slavic-Speaking
University Students", (LMOOC4Slav), funded by the
Erasmus+ Programme of
the European Union Action
KA2 Strategic partnership for higher
education.
We
hope that this issue
will help to promote the
results, materials and methods to a wider
audience and it will
encourage the exchange of ideas and
experiences as well as a productive
collaboration. The
newsletter is issued by Federazione Nazionale
Insegnanti Centro di
iniziativa per l'Europa
(FENICE), a teachers' association aimed at
contributing to the
construction of a common
European educational space improving the
professional
characteristics of teachers and the
standards of learning systems.
You can read this
newsletter also on
www.lmooc4slav.eu or www.fenice-eu.org/.
With this
newsletter, we look forward to begin
and continue a long lasting
networking and
cooperation activity.
What
is LMOOC4Slav
Project?
One of the objectives
of the EU, which aims to
promote mobility and mutual understanding
between cultures, is
that every European citizen should
master two other languages in
addition to their
mother tongue. In Europe's mosaic of languages,
the Slavic and Romance
languages belong to the
most widely represented groups. In fact, thanks
to the Erasmus
programme, thousands of
Slavic-speaking students decide to undertake
part of their
studies in Romance speaking countries,
such as Italy or Portugal. The
LMOOC4Slav project
offers to these students a freely accessible
online learning path
considering their specific
needs for studying abroad.
Having
a B1/B2 level of
competence required for mobility
may not be sufficient to successfully
complete the course
of study and to fully integrate into the
academic context. The language
of academic
communication has its own characteristics and
requires particular
skills and abilities. The
Italian and Portuguese Academic MOOCs will
help learners to
develop these competences and skills,
as well as the strategies that
will make them aware
of how to acquire new languages and how to
learn effectively in the
academic context.
In
addition to the two
MOOCs, the project provides
for the creation of open educational
resources, dedicated
to teachers of LS Italian and Portuguese
and to their students. The
resources will be
downloadable from the project portal
www.lmooc4slav.eu and they will
include video
recordings with transcripts, written texts on
academic topics related
to different disciplinary
fields and "ready to use" Learning Units. The
portal, active in
three languages (IT, PT and EN),
in addition to serving as a repository
for educational
resources, will offer all the
information related to the project, in
particular about the
two international conferences to be held
in Portugal and Italy.
Project
Outputs
At
the end of its
implementation cycle, the project
will have produced these outputs:
-
two
Academic Language
MOOCs (one for Italian, one for
Portuguese);
-
Open
Educational
Resources (OERs) for Italian and
Portuguese for academic purposes;
-
a
Pedagogical Guide
for integrating MOOCs and OERs;
-
a
portal for teaching
languages with MOOCs and OERs;
-
an
edited,
peer-reviewed volume about LMOOCs
-
Two
international
conferences with relative Call for
papers, the first in Porto (PT) and
the second in Naples
(IT)
First
International
Conference & Call for papers
Language MOOCs and OERs: new
trends and
challenges
7-8
October 2022,
University of Porto,
PT
Call
for papers
(deadline: June 11, 2022)
We
invite proposals
including research-related
papers, presentations of case studies and
projects as well as
posters on the subject of Language
MOOCs, including language learning
and teaching with
MOOCs; OER for language learning / teaching;
MOOC and academic
mobility; linguistic diversity,
languages for specific purposes,
digital
transformation in education and new educational
technologies.
Abstract
authors are invited
for a 20-minute presentation
or poster. Submitted abstracts will be
selected through
double-blind review based on their
originality, technical quality and
presentation.
Conference presentations and posters may be in
Portuguese, Italian or
English. The abstracts must
be submitted by 11 June 2022 via EasyChair
at this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lmoocoer2022
More information
can be found at:
https://www.lmooc4slav.eu/conferences.php
A
volume containing
the selected articles will be
published online, with free access, by
the University for
Foreigners of Perugia.
We
are looking forward to
meeting you online very
soon!
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