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What is it?
• Network of practitioners and stakeholders in language education– national agencies, – associations of adult education, – publishers, – international and national chains of language schools – individual private language schools in 18 different
countries
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Aims
• To promote and improve the learning and teaching of languages in adult education
• Sharing expertise and best practice
• Coming together in joint innovative projects
• Disseminating expertise and best practiceECML Professional Network Forum
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Key Activities
• Networking
• Quality Assurance & Certification
• Joint Innovative Projects
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Activities 2010
Teacher Training/Teacher Development• EUROLTA
– Redefinition of training scheme and certification• Manual• Procedures
• ELTACS European Language Teachers Assessment and Certification
• Expert forum in Berlin 4th December– Defining teacher standards
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Activities 2010
Joint Innovative Projects
• Deafport– Production of ELP for the deaf and hearing
impaired• Recognition of context• Simplification of descriptors
• Diverse European Workplace– Dissemination of intercultural training material through
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Activities 2010
Development of ICT learning platforms and tools• Avalon
– Second life learning platform for languages
• PELLIC Practice Enterprise for Language Learning & Intercultural Communication– Tools for business communication
• Let‘sGO– Developing online training courses on how to use e-
products
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2011
• Conference in Winterthur
• 25 – 26 March
• Challenges of Teaching in a Multilingual Society
• Follow up to Deafport
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www.deafport.eu
www.dew-net.eu
www.pellic.eu
http://www.leonardo-lets.net/
www.eurolta.eu
www.eltacs.eu
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