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MULTEMO - The Multilingual Toolkit for European Mobility

Our existing Languages Bridge product is an innovative, multilingual teaching tool. Feedback from European presentations of the tool demonstrated the potential for its adaptation and development with older learners in vocational contexts. The tool focuses on the comparison of structures in different languages through collaborative activities. The methodology improves language learning skills and benefits vocational education to develop a more diverse, confident and competent multilingual workforce. MULTEMO aims; - to develop the skills of VET professionals in the teaching of generic language learning skills and structures, useful in the world of work through a multilingual methodology. This gives VET students the confidence to learn and apply any new language in a foreign working environment. - to increase language competence using a progressive, modular approach identifying key, generic language skills and structures - to adapt our innovative multilingual tool for use with European learners to give them the linguistic tools to adapt to the increasingly diverse and competitive employment market.The partnership consisted of a variety of institutions with vocational and pre-vocational programmes and links to varied education providers in 5 countries, with a wealth of experience in international cooperation.In year 1 of the project the partnership developed over 30 lessons on a wide range of linguistic skills and trialled them in vocational classes in each country. All the materials demonstrate specific linguistic concepts and skills through exemplification in a range of foreign languages. Feedback from the trials demonstrated student engagement with the methodology and progress in understanding and confidence in language learning.At four partnership meetings held, project participants shared and refined devised materials, collaborated to make them richly multilingual and developed the VET Training Programme.In the second year of the project the materials devised were trialled in different VET settings to test their adaptability and potential for use in any European VET context. All the materials are organised into a coherent tool for VET professionals to access through the website.Project researchers also created Case Studies of the development of the tool.The final Partnership Meeting took place in Sofia in May 2012.
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