What is TEMPLATE?
TEMPLATE stands for Technology-Mediated PLurilingual Activities for (language) Teacher Education.
TEMPLATE is a European project that aims at strengthening the professional competence of pre- and in-service teachers who want to fully implement the recommendations of the Council of Europe for the use of plurilingual approaches in language education.
TEMPLATE seeks to offer a professional development programme that integrates: pedagogical aspects, content knowledge, and digital tools that might be applied in class.
It is intended to boost innovative practices for teacher professional development programmes in Europe from a plurilingual perspective.
News & Events
Challenging the Monolingual Bias in Tellecollaboration: Intermediate Findings of the European Project TEMPLATE
Two members of the TEMPLATE team, Prof. Dr. Euline Cutrim Schmid and PhD student Anita Cvetkovic Kienle, presented their ongoing research within the framework of the TEMPLATE project at the EuroCALL conference in August 2022. Their presentation, titled “Challenging the Monolingual Bias in Tellecollaboration: Intermediate Findings of the European
REGIONAL SEMINAR IN SPAIN
TEMPLATE keeps training and providing teachers with tools and ideas to develop their skills in CLIL and Plurilingualism. On November 29th and December 1st, 25 primary and secondary teachers had the opportunity to participate in the TEMPLATE’s Spanish Regional Seminar at UJI (Universitat Jaume I in Castelló), organised hand
Transnational meeting Belgium
TEMPLATE’s second Transnational Meeting and Multiplier event took place at the beginning of November in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). The template team had the opportunity to meet again for three days to reflect on the work done and plan the next steps in the project. Besides, 35 teachers, who shared their
Plurilingual Escape Room in Italy
On the 31st of October some students of our Italian school partner MAUX (Liceo Maria Ausiliatrice) participated in the plurilingual Escape Room- “Where is Mihaela?”. It was a great opportunity to learn about intercomprehension, good job guys!
TEMPLATE at E-GRAPHELES
Last month, Carmen Notari, one of our partners from Spain, gave a presentation at the VI International Conference E-Grapheles in Valencia (Spain). In her speech Actitudes, usos y necesidades tecnológicas de nuestros docentes de lenguas. Proyecto TEMPLATE, Carmen talked about TEMPLATE results regarding the use and needs of digital
XX International AELFE Conference
Template is back to work! Our partners from Spain Inma Fortanet and Carmen Notari, and our Italian Junior Phd Giulia Ciaramita presented some of our project findings in the last International AELFE Conference which took place in Pisa on the last 14th and 15th of September. Inma and Carmen
Giulia Ciaramita in Eurocall 2022
One of our Junior Phds presented her ongoing work and research at Eurocall. Her presentation, called ‘Pre-service Teacher Education and the Integration of Mediation, Technology and Plurilingualism.’, showed her investigation into Mediation among pre-service teachers both in Spain and Italy comparing results and findings. Good job Giulia!
Virtual exchange – Lessons learned
We are very excited to host a final session this Friday for all the teachers who were part of our workshops on plurilingual virtual exchange! Six teachers from primary and secondary schools will share their experiences and advice that they have gained from designing and implementing their own exchange
Mixed-methods research: Ecological perspectives on language teaching
We are pleased to announce that the “Mixed-methods research: Ecological perspectives on language teaching” summer school will take place from 17 to 20 August 2022 at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Aims of the workshop In the past few decades, mixed-methods studies have proven very useful to
TRAINING
The main target group of the project are teachers involved in FL teaching, CLIL activities and project-based learning. They will be involved in a training that integrates the pedagogical aspects with the content knowledge and the digital tools (TPACK model) that might be effectively applied in class in an innovative framework that will set the bar high in terms of innovative practices and teacher training programmes across Europe.
RESEARCH
The findings of related SLA research will be made accessible to teachers by means of publications, conferences and thesis in order to promote researcher-teacher collaboration and teacher-research, and with the aim of involving teacher educators in the research on the current plurilingual teaching practice.
RESEARCH
The findings of related SLA research will be made accessible to teachers by means of publications, conferences and thesis in order to promote researcher-teacher collaboration and teacher-research, and with the aim of involving teacher educators in the research on the current plurilingual teaching practice.
RESOURCES
Open educational resources will be freely available on the project website so that teachers, teacher trainers and researchers all over the world will be able to benefit from modules inspired in the project results, and designed to develop the implementation of plurilingual foreign language education.
