IUFM des maitres de Bourgogne

International Conference :

Promoting the use of lesser taught European languages: Policies and methodologies

7 au 9 Αpril 2003, Dijon, France

The ‘Hellonet” project took part in the International conference ‘Promoting the use of lesser-taught European languages’ which took place in Dijon, France from 7-9 April. This very important conference gathered scholars, educators, language teachers and educational policy makers from more than twenty countries of Europe. This conference, within the framework of Lingua program, was part of another Lingua project for the promotion of lesser spoken languages in Europe. Our institution is one of the partners of this project.

Some of the topics discussed in this conference were: Multiculturalism and the teaching of living European languages, Language policies in Europe, Projects of good practice, evaluation and certification, The role of TV in the building of a language environment, The European language portfolio, Bilingualism in Europe, European programs for the promotion of languages, etc. Presentation of innovative language projects like Hellonet, Vif@x, Primlang, Evlang, Galatea, Eurotyp LaLiTa, και Eurolanguages.net took place.

For more information about this conference surf at:

http://lingua.fc-tic.net/theproject2.htm

If you want to know more about this Lingua project go to:

http://lingua.fc-tic.net

You can have a look at the partnership of this project and also learn Greek, Lithuanian, Italian and Portuguese. You can see the conference program of events and activities. You can see photos of the lovely city of Dijon. You can also see photos of us. Mr Jean-Paul Palasse, the web master of the project has made a marvelous job promoting our various activities and we thank him for this.

If you want to learn some Greek through this site go to:

http://lingua.fc-tic.net/gr/grlearn.htm