European Network
of Language Teacher Associations

Europäisches Netzwerk
der FremdsprachenlehrerInnenverbände

Red Europea de Asociaciones
de Profesores de Lenguas

 

REAL Seminar for Teachers | Augsburg, Germany: 15-18 September 2010

This seminar, organised as part of the REAL2 project in cooperation with the University of Augsburg and the Gesamtverband Moderne Fremdsprachen (GMF), aims to explore how European issues can be brought into the foreign language classroom

 

Target audience

> This training event is aimed at European language teachers.

> Teachers who are not yet members of a language teacher association are particularly welcome.

Objectifs

- Raising awareness of the new European Network of Language Teachers.
- Helping to enrich language teachers’ skills by reflecting together on ways in which to motivate pupils ;
- Creating a platform for cooperation and exchange between teachers of different European languages.

Structure

> The seminar will be structured around presentations and workshops exploring various aspects of this topic. The following themes, and their relationship to the foreign languages classroom, will be the focus of the seminar’s debates:

• integrating the concept of lifelong learning into the secondary school language classroom;
• encouraging teachers of different foreign languages to work together;
• developing the concept of intercomprehension
• raising awareness of European language policy in the language classroom.

Registration

Speakers and Programme

> Click here to download a detailed programme and information on the plenary sessions and workshops in PDF format

• Byram, Michael (Durham, UK)

Some Considerations on the Relationship of Language Teaching to Citizenship

• Candelier, Michel (Le Mans)

A reference framework for plural approaches to languages and culture (CARAP/RePA): an instrument for curriculum development and teaching  

• Coste, Daniel (Lyon, France)

Modern Language Teaching: values and evaluation. The importance of removing barriers

The future of language teaching in Europe: Impressions and perspectives

• Edelhoff, Christoph (Grebenstein, Germany)

Across Borders – Understanding and Communicating. Tasks for Language Teaching and Learning in a Wider and Multicultural Europe

• TEA Forum (Börner, Otfried / Harsch, Claudia / Legutke, Michael / Rebel, Karlheinz / Ziegelmeier, Susanne)

Reading and Comprehension: competences for Europe. A didactical approach.

• Klippel, Friederike (Munich, Germany)

On values and objectives: languages, teaching and language learning through the ages

• Roenneper, Henny (Munich, Germany)

CertiLingua, a quality label for European bilingual pupils.

• Spaniel-Weise, Dorothea (Jena)

Bilingual and binational learning in border regions to promote European identity

• Schröder, Konrad (Augsburg)

Bringing Europe into the foreign languages classroom

• Schröder, Konrad (Augsburg)

English as a gateway to languages. How should English teaching be changed to fulfil this new role?

• Schröder, Konrad / Vogt, Karin / Weskamp, Ralf / Chair: Edelhoff, Christoph)

Reading and Comprehension: competences for Europe. A didactical approach.

• Ziegemeier, Susanne

e-Twinning and the language classroom

Interpreting

Simultaneous interpreting will be available in English, French and German.

Accommodation

Accommodation can be booked through the Augsburg Tourist Information Office, click here. It is recommended to choose a hotel in the city centre and travel to the campus, since there are no hotels on or near the campus.

Please make sure to book accommodation well in advance as the Oktoberfest in Munich begins on 18 September 2010.

Seminar location

University of Augsburg
Phil.-Hist. Fakultät
Gebäude D4
Universitätsstraße 10
86135 Augsburg

For information on the seminar location click here. The city centre and the campus are connected by public transport (tram line number 3).

Further information

> For further information on the Congress, log on to website of the Gesamtverband Moderne Fremdsprache (GMF), who are hosting this event.

> For further information on the REAL seminar, please write to germany-seminar@real-association.eu

> For general questions relating to the Congress, write to : gmf2010@phil.uni-augsburg.de