The European Project TILA

Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA), is an EU-funded project within the Lifelong Learning Programme that will run between January 2013 and June 2015. TILA's overall objectives are: (1) to innovate, enrich and make foreign language teaching programmes more attractive...

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Published inResearch-publishing.net
Main Authors Jauregi, Kristi, Melchor-Couto, Sabela, Beltrán, Elina Vilar
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published Research-publishing 01.09.2013
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Appropriate Technology
Communicative Competence (Languages)
Computer Mediated Communication
Czech Republic
Educational Practices
Europe
Faculty Development
Foreign Countries
France
Germany
Intercultural Programs
Language Acquisition
Lifelong Learning
Netherlands
Online Surveys
Second Language Programs
Secondary School Teachers
Spain
Technical Assistance
Technology Uses in Education
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Netherlands
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Spain
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Summary:Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA), is an EU-funded project within the Lifelong Learning Programme that will run between January 2013 and June 2015. TILA's overall objectives are: (1) to innovate, enrich and make foreign language teaching programmes more attractive and effective by encouraging the implementation of telecollaboration activities in secondary schools across Europe; (2) to assist teachers and teacher training programmes in developing information and communications technology (ICT) literacy skills as well as organisational, pedagogical and intercultural competences to guarantee adequate integration of telecollaboration practices; and (3) to study the added value that telecollaboration may bring to language learning in terms of intercultural understanding and motivation amongst younger learners. Our aim in this (albeit short) paper is to introduce the project, its background and outline the specific teaching needs of our participants with regards to languages and technology. [For full proceedings, see ED565044.]