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THE INITIATIVE PROMOTER’S PERSPECTIVE
This "party (made) of Languages" is primarily intended to give students a taste, the motivation to learn a foreign language. This special day mobilizing the whole school is an invitation to practice languages in many ways. It provides an opportunity for all students to learn about other cultures, to take on his own knowledge and the need to learn other languages in the world today.
The project mobilizes ALL learners, from the first to the sixth secondary (general - technical - professional) and all the teachers and staff of the school.
It gives all pupils the opportunity to find out about other cultures, to take stock of their own knowledge and of the necessity to learn other languages in today's world.
Relevant languages : German, English, Chinese, Creole , Spanish, French , Hungarian, Italian , sign language , Latin, Dutch, Polish , Czech , Vietnamese, Walloon ...
Students and teachers are divided into thirty workshops each scheduled over a period of 50 minutes , according to a rotating formula . Students can participate in up to 6 workshops during the day.
Examples of workshops :
- Participation of native speakers living in the Chimay region ( Deidre Forgaty : " Welcome to Ireland " workshop , Ms. Nhu Link : Vietnamese workshop , Ms. Zu : Chinese workshop)
- Games in Dutch or English (" Spikit ", " VO Challenge ", " Chabadabada ", " Trivial Pursuit " Everyone wants to take his place , "" Identik "," België "
- Discovery of Polish students through high school Pleszew in residence in Belgium , with which we carry over 10 years an exchange Comenius project.
- Use of New Technologies of Information and Communication (workshop " Inter'Ned ")
- Meeting with students in 5th or 6th who participated in a Junior Erasmus ( the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy ) who share their experiences and learn the languages they have learned.
Through the day, the students realize that language learning does not happen in schools, but also in the society in which they live. They meet partners who emigrated while keeping their origins, they meet partners who had very rewarding experiences a linguistic point of view, they discuss with organizations promoting exchanges between communities.
Comments on this Case Studies
Date: 2014.09.28
Posted by Cintia Colibaba (Romania)
Message: Multiculturalism and multilinguism are very important issues in today\'s society. Students must be made aware, as young as possible, of their role in the modern world. The project aims at introducing young learners from a multitude of educational profiles to a great number of foreign languages and sign language. A very ambitious idea, the project is interesting to disseminate mainly because of the active workshops which can be custom-made for multitude end results.