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Project summaries
ICCinTE – Intercultural communication training in teacher education
(Co-ordination: Ildikó Lázár)
This project aims at placing training for intercultural communicative competence in
teacher training programmes. The project group produced a guide including a
theoretical background and practical resource materials for teaching and assessing
intercultural communicative competence for language teachers and educators. It builds
on the intercultural textbook Mirrors and Windows published in English and French by
the ECML, yet offers additional training materials too, such as guidelines and materials
for using literature, film and songs for the purpose of developing intercultural
competence and a substantial chapter on the assessment of intercultural communicative
competence.
LEA – Language educator awareness
(Co-ordination: Mercè Bernaus)
The project is firmly rooted in the plurilingual and pluricultural framework of the
CEFR. The publication is geared towards teacher training for raising plurilingual and
pluricultural awareness, yet some of the activities could also be used in the classroom.
Teacher training in this project is viewed from a social, a personal and a professional
dimension. More than 30 activities offer a wide range of materials from many
languages which would be difficult to access otherwise.
ICOPROMO – Intercultural competence for professional mobility
(Co-ordination: Evelyne Glaser)
The project has developed training activities for developing critical cultural awareness
of both native and foreign cultures and intercultural competence for social science
graduates as well as professionals who plan to work in a different culture or an
international company. The activities build on a model of intercultural mobility which
focuses on the process of intercultural learning through mobility. The aim of the
training activities is to provide members of multicultural teams with the necessary
background to enable them to work comfortably and efficiently with people from other
cultures and to respect their identities, particularly in situations of team work.
GULLIVER – To get to know each other leads to better mutual
understanding
(Co-ordination: Magdalena Bedynska)
This project provided a forum for intercultural interaction among school pupils from 23
classes in 22 European countries using four languages (English, French, German, and
Spanish). The publication is mainly geared towards language teachers who are
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