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
EUROCALL 2023
At the Eurocall2023 conference held at the University of Reykjavik (Iceland) in August 2023, our German partners, Euline Cutrim Schmid and Anita Cvetkovic Kienle, presented their intermediate research results in the context of international telecollaboration. Their presentation, entitled “Developing Digital and Pedagogical Competencies for Integrating Plurilingual-Inspired Telecollaboration into the
Germany’s Regional Workshop
A TEMPLATE regional workshop took place at the University of Education Schwaebisch Gmuend in Germany on May 5th. It was organized by our German partners Euline Cutrim Schmid, Anita Cvetkovic Kienle, Hilal Sahin and Andrea Kratzer. The primary objective of the workshop was to showcase the results of the
Time to recap our webinar series!
After our webinar series, it is time to recap and reflect on the results. We are really happy with our teachers’ participation. They had the chance to meet other teachers from other countries and share experiences and thoughts on Telecollaboration, CALL and CLIL. Thank you to all the participants
TEMPLATE Webinar Series: Plurilingual telecollaboration
The first session of the TEMPLATE webinar series on plurilingual telecollaboration attracted 14 foreign language teachers from different European countries. Following a brief input by the German research team, who used an ongoing virtual exchange to exemplify the current research in this context, the teachers worked collaboratively in small
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
Best wishes from the TEMPLATE team!!
The TEMPLATE team wishes you all the best for this upcoming holiday and the new year. We hope to keep sharing and collaborating with you next year. Happy Christmas!! Feliz Navidad!! Buon Natale!! Linksmų Kalėdų!! Frohe Weihnachten!! Glædelig jul!! Joyeux Noël!! Mutlu Noeller!! Boldog Karácsonyt!
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!
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 IN PROGRESS!
A snapshot from last week’s team meeting, working out the details for the virtual exchanges with teachers from Germany and Italy. Very exciting things to come! @template_eu @CutrimSchmid #TEMPLATE #plurilingualism #virtualexchange”
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.
