Background to the PLURIMOBIL project
This website results from a project run within the ECML's (European Centre for Modern Languages) Empowering Language Professionals programme entitled "PLURIMOBIL- Mobility Programmes for Plurilingual and Intercultural Education - Tools for Language Teachers".
Abstract of the project
Even though mobility programmes are recognized as one of the most powerful pedagogical instruments in curricula aiming at plurilingual and intercultural education, they need not automatically result in better intercultural or linguistic skills. The aim of this project is to develop a pedagogical device which enables teachers to assist learners in benefiting, as much as possible, from the learning opportunities which they are offered by exchange programmes – by integrating their intercultural encounters in a sustained learning process.
The device is presented as a learning scenario and caters for the entire process: the preparatory phase, the period spent abroad, the post-mobility programme experience, and the follow-up period. In particular, it is based on the use of selected instruments of the Council of Europe which encourage reflective practice, autonomous learning, goal setting and self-evaluation, in specific the European Language Portfolio (ELP) and the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters (AIE). The scenario is aimed, at the same time, at
a) teachers in initial training who will test the instrument during their own exchange experience, and;
b) the pupils in primary and lower secondary school whom these teachers will work with in their future professional life.
This is based on the insight that the students, as future teachers, can integrate more easily into their teaching what they have experienced, in real life, during their own education and training.