LEA projectLEA projectThe plurilingual and pluricultural The plurilingual and pluricultural dimension in language teacher dimension in language teacher

trainingtraining

Mercè Bernaus

merce.bernaus@uab.es

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The LEA PROJECT Language Educator AwarenessLanguage Educator Awareness

5 members in the coorfination team

29 participants

29 countries

29 didactic units

+ than 100 hours of teacher training activities

objectivesobjectives To raise awareness of diversity as a key element of

society.

To develop positive attitudes among language teachers towards all other languages as well as their speakers.

To enrich language teacher education with the potential to exploit linguistic and cultural diversity at individual and social levels.

To facilitate curricular changes to incorporate plurilingual and pluricultural awareness into language classes.

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Plurilingual and

PluriculturalCompetence

A: social-affective

C: linguistic and communicational

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B: attitudes and motivation

D: Interaction

Teacher training materialsTeacher training materials

The content of the LEA kitThe content of the LEA kit

• rationale for a plurilingual and pluricultural approach

• 29 sets of activities

• samples of materials for students.

Circles of my pluricultural selfCircles of my pluricultural self (Viera Bockova)• Write your name in the middle circle.

Write an important aspect of your identity in each satellite circle (you can add more circles if necessary)

• Exchange the information about your identities with somebody else and look for the similarities.

• Can you tell an anecdote of a specific situation that made you feel proud of one of your identities?

• Is there any stereotype related to one of your identities but that you don’t feel identified with that? For example,– I’m Spanish but I don’t like being late.

Pluriculturalité et sémiotiquePluriculturalité et sémiotique(Astrid Guillaume)

Cultural AwarenessCultural Awareness (Fernando Trujillo)

Religion

GenderPolitics

Spare time

Studies

Simulation:

Identity and stereotypes

Name, place and date of birth,

studies, hobbies, personality,…

Exam of identity

From identity to multiple

identifications: beyond nation,

religion and ethnic group

ProverbesProverbes(Sofie Jonckheere)

Erken kalkan yol alır, erken evlenen döl alır The early bird

catches the worm Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde

L'alba ha l'oro in bocca

L'avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt A quien madruga,

Dios le ayuda

Proverbes en 16 langues: turc, anglais, hollandais, allemand, italien, suédois, français, roumain, espagnol, polonais, hongrois, islandais, slovaque, tchèque, estonien et croate

1.- In groups of 3 or 4 discuss what can motivate teachers to go on with their profession.

2.- What does motivate your group members to go on with their profession?

3.- Report the results in the plenary session.

Attitudes and MotivationAttitudes and Motivation (Mercè Bernaus)

How to motivate the teachers?

How to motivate the students?

Gremion, L. 2004 . Une lecture anthropologique du rapport à la différence. Actes de la recherche de la HEP-BEJUNE, 3, 66-81. Quotings translated by Aine Furlong.

Gràcies!Gràcies! Merci!Merci!

Thank you!Thank you!Danke!Danke!

Web site of the LEA project: http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/LEA

Mercè Bernaus: merce.bernaus@uab.es