CercleS – Nachrichten
Hier finden Sie einen Überblick über die neuesten Nachrichten über CercleS, die für unsere Mitglieder von Interesse sein könnten. Einzelheiten über Projekte, in denen CercleS mitwirkt, finden Sie unten. Besuchen Sie auch die Seiten über Veranstaltungen und die Wahlen.
Gastgeber der 10. Internationalen CercleS-Konferenz, die vom 18. bis 20. September 2008 stattfand, war das Sprachenzentrum der Universität Sevilla, Spanien. Alle Informationen zu dem Ereignis finden Sie auf der Konferenz-Webseite.
Bulletin 24 ist von nun an erhältlich und wurde bereits an unsere Mitglieder versandt. Neben anderen interessanten Themen enthält diese Ausgabe Artikel über die bevorstehende 10. CercleS-Konferenz in Sevilla, die AULC-Jahrestagung und das Sprachenzentrum der Universität Perugia in Second Life. (September 2008)
Die Proceedings der 9. CercleS-Konferenz, Frankfurt (Oder), 2006, herausgegeben von Thomas Vogel, Ray Satchell und Alžbeta Moravčíková, sind von nun an zum Preis von 30€ erhältlich. (September 2008)
Der Bericht über den CercleS ELP Translation Workshop, der im November 2007 an der Universität Padua, Italien, stattfand, ist ab sofort erhältlich.
EXPLICS- Exploiting Internet Case Studies
The aim of the EXPLICS project is to improve language competence of students
by preparing models of best-practice in how to exploit Internet case study
and simulation templates and by familiarising language teachers with these
models. This is achieved by bringing together the different competence areas
of the project partners. These specialisations include: task-oriented and
problem-based learning and teaching; use of global simulations; use of case
studies in language teaching; development of language level descriptors and
methods of language testing, use of ICT for corpus analysis and concordancing
and the use of ICT for language testing. We will then develop interrelated
activities for subject-specific language teaching.
PICTURE Project
CercleS was also involved in the PICTURE (Portfolio Intercultural Communication - Towards Using Real Experiences) project, which was initiated in November 2004, and ran for approximately three years. This project was supported by SOCRATES and coordinated by Cor Koster. It had two aims:
first, to develop a language teaching module on aspects of intercultural
communication; second, to produce a questionnaire that could be used by
students to carry out interviews with foreign language speakers.
Lingu@net Europa PLUS: Expanding the virtual languages resource centre
Lingu@net Europa PLUS project builds on Lingu@net Europa, the virtual
languages resource centre (www.linguanet-europa.org) developped with Socrates /
Leonardo support (1998-2001), and is coordinated by CILT. The objectives of
Lingu@net Europa PLUS are: first, to make it easier for adult learners
throughout the EU to gain access to relevant, good quality on-line language
learning resources; second, to open Lingu@net Europa up to thousands of new
users by adding 11 new access languages.
LATE Project
The LATE (Language Audits - Tools for Europe) project, which was initiated in
November 2001 and ran for approximately three years, ended in June 2004. The
participants in this project were 16 organisations in seven countries.
CercleS' task, as a partner, was to monitor and evaluate the products and to
ensure compliance with quality objectives. The project has recently led to
two publications, as reported on in Bulletin 18, pp.8-9.
ENLU- Creating A New European Network
ENLU is one of seven projects selected in the frame of the European
Commission’s Call for proposals EAC/45/03, issued in preparation of the
Action Plan Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity.The main
objective of the two-year project is to create a trans-European network of
higher education institutions and other stakeholder organisations with a view
to achieving a breakthrough in the area of “languages for all”. The project
is carried out under the auspices of the Conseil Européen pour les Langues /
European Language Council (CEL/ELC), which has been engaged in language
policy development and in European projects since it was founded in 1997. The
project represents a response to the linguistic and cultural challenges posed
by thecreation of a European higher education area and a European research
area and by the Lisbon Strategy.
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