Language Teacher Education

COORDINATOR

Dainuvite Bluma  Latvijas Universitate  (LV)

DEPUTY

Ana Artigas Univesidad de Zaragoza  (ES) 

INTERNAL EVALUATOR

Ingela Valfridsson   Umea Universitet   (SE)

GROUP MEMBERS

 Camilla Salvi  European University Institute  (IT)
 Doreen Spiteri  Universita ta' Malta  (MT)
 Chantal Weststrate  Universiteit van Amsterdam  (NL)
 Gillian Moreira  Universidade de Aveiro  (PT)
 Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken  Sabancı Üniversitesi  (TR)
 Mike Grenfell  Trinity College Dublin (IE)

  

USEFUL DOCUMENTS AND WEBLINKS

 

 Year 1 report on Language Teacher Education

European Centre for Modern Languages
www.ecml.at/
The Council of Europe created the European Centre for Modern Languages to encourage excellence and innovation in language teaching and to help Europeans learn languages more efficiently

European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages
www.ecml.at/mtp2/FTE/pdf/STPExtract.pdf

Improving the Quality of Teacher Education
Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament 3.8.2007
http://ec.europa.eu/education/com392_en.pdf

The Profile Project
The European Profile for Language Teacher Education: A Frame of Reference is a checklist that policy makers and language teacher educators can adapt for their existing programmes and needs
www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profile/

The Profile Project Report
www.lang.soton.ac.uk/profile/report/index.htm    

REAL, The European Network of Language Teacher Associations
www.real-association.eu/
REAL is a network of around 140 language teacher associations representing over 150,000 teachers of languages across the European Union, and in the Lifelong Learming Programme states

SemLang Summer University
www.semlang.eu/Accueil.aspx 
Experts from all over Europe are invited to exchange information about existing systems of teacher education and reflect on ways of improving teacher training                          

Thematic Network Project in the Area of Languages 2, Subgroup 3: Quality Enhancement in Language Studies
Synthesis report on measures relating to the training of higher education teachers and trainers professionally engaged in the area of languages
www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/aspla/tnp2/doc/syn_tud.rtf

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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