Main aim

Development and promotion of methodologies to motivate language learners (people working in tourist sector) and enhance their capacity for language learning.

Specific objectives:

• to develop foreign language training concept by employing learning contents that reflect the business needs and interests of the group, the language learning concept will include the concept of self-directed learning and family learning for foreign languages
• to demonstrate project contents and results through variety of demonstration events and dissemination actions including Multiplier seminar for EU countries

Outcomes:

• Handbook "Be multilingual! – raising motivation of foreign languages learners by implementing modern ways of learning in tourist sector"
• Toolbox with developed and/or adapted learning materials in context of tourist field
• Pilot test for validation of handbook and toolbox for foreign languages learning with elements of content related, self directed learning and family learning
• Concept of demonstration events and its realisation
• Language project platform

Targetgroups

Short term target:
Language course providers and their trainers and tutors.
Key actors for lifelong learning and language learning training policies.
National and European language learning programmes, initiatives and networks.
Institutions /organisations acting in tourist sector.
 
Long term beneficiaries:
Employees, owners of small pensions, hotels, restaurants, agro tourist pensions from rural areas in Europe.

Partners:

Volkshochschule im Landkreis Cham e.V. – VHS  - coordinator (Germany)
Institut für berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH – BEST (Austria)
Fundación General de la Universidad de Valladolid - FGUVA (Spain)
Instituto Municipal de Formación y Empleo - IMFE (Spain)
IRFA SUD (France)
Vytautas Magnus University - VMU (Lithuania)
The Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz – WSHE (Poland)
CENTRO DE FORMAÇÃO ANTÓNIO SÉRGIO – CFAS (Portugal)
REPERE ASSOCIATION – BACAU BRANCH (Romania)
FOLKUNIVERSITETET – FOLK (Sweden)

Website:

www.be-multilingual.com

Duration:

November 2007 - October 2009

Contact person: Ingmarie Rohdin