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Let's Build Word Towers Together

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-BE02-KA229-074792
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 113,910 EUR

Let's Build Word Towers Together

Description

Language learning is a very essential matter in today's' world and for a permanent language acquisition, the starting age is very important. As a result of the surveys we have done at our schools with our partners, we found out that vocabulary learning is the most problematic issue in language learning. Students can easily forget the new words they have learned in the foreign language because they don't use them in their daily lives or are confronted with those words in a different context. Experience learns that the difficulty in acquiring new vocabulary is often caused by social environment, puberty and the combination of a lot of school subjects. However, we think that we can achieve a permanent vocabulary learning with small steps by building word towers brick by brick and make it more visual and meaningful for students. As we observe, students can easily remember complex words they come across in computer games and songs and never forget them as they see them frequently. This tells us that intrinsic motivation is an important factor in the acquisition of vocabulary. Taking this into consideration, we based our project on improving the intrinsic motivation for learning. By taking small and meaningful steps we will create a positive learning atmosphere for our students in which we will try to relate to their everyday living environment. We will supply them with opportunities to practise their language skills. We are convinced that when students enjoy this informal learning process the acquired knowledge will be rendered more effectively.We will also create online platforms where students can build their online towers and play online games with their newly acquired vocabulary. They will chat with each partner schools' students and have a chance to communicate in the target language. On a regular basis, students will study different topics and enrich their vocabulary accordingly. They will design clothes, T-shirts, bags etc. so they will be also kinesthetically active. They will sing songs, make rhymes and write poems, so they improve their auditory skills. Thus, we will try to appeal to all senses of our students throughout the whole project and reinforce their intrinsic motivation to learn English. At the end of the project, the students will have gained a lot of valuable experiences which cannot be provided by the normal curriculum.At the beginning of our project we will start with a group of voluntary students. Then, they will present our project to their mates and motivate them to participate in the activities. We will design a computer lab for our project and our (ICT) teachers will be responsible for the technical part of the project. We will also display our word towers here monthly and organize exhibitions to show them to all students. Partner schools will share their experiences and send the photos of their towers to each other.Bernardusscholen will be responsible for carrying out the project. Our partners are Turkey, Italy, Poland and Romania. They have similar vocabulary teaching problems. Following the results of the questionnaires (SWOT analysis), we aim at creating new and effective language acquisition techniques and methods and help our students by sharing experiences with each other. We will organize meetings and mobilities and take some of our students to partner countries and foster their use of language in a different country and in a real life context. Our project will last for 2 years in which we plan a lot of enjoyable activities for our students. This project will provide the students with tools to learn vocabulary more easily. They will be able to use these vocabulary in their towers, posters, songs, clothes and online games easily and they will be proud of themselves. The ability of using language at an early age will also affect their school and social life positively. Moreover, our project will give them a chance to experience new cultures, ideas and lifestyles, generating more self confidence and ambition. We will invite local schools to our school and show them our studies and motivate them to prepare this kind of projects. We will also invite local and if possible national media to present our project. We will share the results and outcomes of our project with other organisations interested in language teaching.Our project will live on after 2 years, since our websites/eTwinning Live Space will remain active. Students will be able to stay in touch with their foreign colleagues to endlessly expand their towers and success.

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