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Language in Motion
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

In addition to the Diocesan Gymnasium Vipava, which is the applicant organisation, the Lycee Pierre Termier of Grenoble will also take part in this project called Language in Motion. We decided to cooperate with Pierre Termier because we already had some contacts before and wanted to choose a school with English as a first foreign language and with a strong desire to encourage transversal key competence of communication both in the mother tongue and in a foreign language. This project is a response to the lack of communication skills of our students. The students themselves expressed a wish to pay more attention to rhetoric and enhancing communication skills because many of them have a fear of public speaking. In addition, more and more students have difficulties in expressing themselves both in their mother tongue and foreign languages. The trend is that their language knowledge becomes increasingly better, however, they experience difficulties in the active use of the language and the gap between those who do better and those who lag behind is becoming wider and wider. Students with learning difficulties will be also included in the project. It will last two years and about 200 students of both participating schools will take part in the activities held in the course of the project. The project aims to improve the communication skills of students and language-related extra-curricular activities and increase the number of students taking part in these activities (our aim is that there will be 15% more students participating in these activities by the end of the project). In addition, the project will boost the publishing activity of both schools, since in the course of the project, we plan to publish eight publications dealing with current social issues and four literary publications (two of them will be published as bilingual editions). Moreover, events to promote reflection on the use of language will be organised (such as panel discussion, literary evenings, etc.) and the young will have the opportunity to get in touch with the local media (e.g. by visiting them or writing articles to be published). As for the extracurricular activities, we would like to improve the existing offer and add some new content. The following extracurricular activities will be available: journalism, rhetoric, theatre, literature and a group discussing current issues. The so-called plan for these extracurricular activities that promote the use of language and acquisition of communication skills will be written down and the necessary learning tools to carry out these activities will be defined (O1). In addition, we plan to publish a book (O2) consisting of students’ contributions that are to be produced in the course of the project. Not only the best pieces of literature but also interviews, reports, etc. will find its place in the book. This project presupposes four multiplier events (E). We believe it is best to hold these events during our exchanges to make it possible for the mentors of the partner school to participate in the meetings as well. In addition, we will carry out four exchanges (two in Slovenia and two in France) with sixteen guest students and two teachers attending each of them. During their seven-day stay at their partners, they will attend lessons, visit the media, work on various projects, discuss how to carry out some projects together, share good practice, communicate with each other using English, etc. As already stressed before, the project aims at arousing the interest in language learning and mastering the mother tongue, improving our attitude towards languages in general and above all to our mother tongues, enabling the young to spend time with their peers from abroad and communicate in a foreign language and, last but not least, encouraging students to participate in language-related activities. The project strives to be an example of good partnership and cooperation.
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