ELS@Work - European Languages for Secretaries

Partners:

CPR Gijón

Name of the person involved in the event:

Belén Roza and Ana Monte

Date of the event:

14^th May 2008

Type of Dissemination event:

Meeting

Description of Dissemination Event:

Third official Meeting with language teachers from upper secondary education, vocational training and adult language schools to involve them in work groups to pilot the ELS portal: revision of some of the units.

Target group:

In service teachers (Languages, Vocational Training, Secondary and Tertiary Education)

Number of people reached by event:

13

Held in:

Gijón (ES)

Outcomes and Results:

- The 13 Asturian teachers were divided in two work groups in order to pilot the ELS portal according to their students’ needs: One group of 7 teachers have piloted and shared their experience in adult language schools (EOI), the other group of 6 teachers have assessed the ELS portal from their viewpoint of in-service teachers at secondary school level and vocational training. Some teachers also analyzed French, Italian and Spanish contents of the ELS platform.

- Conclusions:

o The function of the ELS portal should be improved to make it more user-friendly.

o The quality of the materials is somehow irregular, making necessary the revision of some tasks and versions (French, for instance) to improve coherence and good balance of skills.

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