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Swiss Projects in Language Education
CEDILE: Fachdidakzentrum Fremdsprachen - Foreign Language Teaching Center - University of Fribourg
This coordination center provides many resources and an overview of projects throught all the regions of Switzerland. Follow the blog and sign up for their newsletter if you are interested in not just English, but French, German and Italian teaching, too!
Action English - In and Out of School
You will find materials available on this toolbox about this project, but the gist is that English language teaching should embrace the local and glocal community and there are many situations where language mediation can contribute to better learning of the target language.
Look at the pages on this Toolbox for more information on the project in general and specific materials.
Swiss Museums in Language Education
This project was sponsored by the Loterie Romande and provides ideas for using museum visits (preparatory lessons and lessons after the visit) for your language lessons! Some highlights for English are the Sherlock Holmes Museums and the Native American Museum, but many of the ideas can be used for many other languages!
Schule Buchrain goes international
This school has piloted English immersion in the school. You can read more about the project here.
Think about it!
- These projects are often developmental but many aspects of them could be researched (e.g. student motivation / teacher preparation / incidental learning and more). You could also try to use these as a springboard for some action research if you are teaching already!
- Don't hesitate to look into the projects and contact the people responsible - they would love to have interested young teachers continue and improve their work!