e-CAL - e-Coaching et Apprentissage des Langues

e-Coaching et Apprentissage des Langues /N° de projet : 2015-1-FR01-KA204-015334
Topic sheets including additional tutorial material are available for download on the project’s website.
The website also provides a tandem learner database where potential users can register or look for
European and worldwide tandem partners. The topic sheets are available in 11 languages (Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Spanish, and Turkish), ranging
from A1 to B2 and additional public area topic sheets. They have been designed by 20 project partners
from different countries all over Europe, including Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Lithuania,
etc.
Each partner topic sheets for individual tandem sessions, in their native language to not only promote
online tandem learning, but also to reduce dropout rates of tandem learners. The presentation
provides any interested institutions, instructors, and/or individuals with more detailed background
information on the project including its key focus, didactic criteria applied when developing the topic
sheets, sample topic sheets and tutorial material, access, registration and usage aspects.
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2.Target groups
All language learners
3.Indicate the relevant thematic area/s more than one is possible
Competence Process Communication Resources
X X X
3.1.Thematic Area Competence n.a.
3.2.Thematic Area Process
Describe the solution from the perspective of eCAL
The idea of the SEAGULL Project is that learners find a partner to learn the language with. This feeds
very well into the concept of E-cal. Each learner will find a partner who is a native speaker of the
language they are learning, to learn in tandem while their partner learns their language.
It is different from an exchange as there are structured lessons, materials and handbooks for each
partner to follow and draw resources from, in the form of ideas and topic sheets. An integral part of
the learning process through SEAGULL is the idea that both partners use Skype (or something similar)
to keep in touch and learn face-to-face (virtually).
In this process, both parties are learner and teacher.
SEAGULL also offers learners a certificate of achievement at the end of the course, after a minimum of
15 documented meetings in which learners learn in tandem.
Assessment *of the solution found in the thematic area Process
Clarity: To what extent the outcomes are systematically worked through, coherent and clearly 4
developed?
Credibility: To what extent the methodological approaches are plausible and justified? 5
Contribution: To what extent the outcome adds to knowledge and/or practice of an issue or 4
aspect regarding eCAL?