Bd. Mihai Eminescu nr. 40, , Botoşani, Romania COM – 10 – PR – 19 – BT – TR, RO Tel/Fax: +40 (0) Isabella CANTEMIR New Ways in English Language Teaching Through Sharing Experiences New ELT

The project aims to identify problems about English language teaching and find new ways such as creative ideas, new approaches in ELT in order to minimize the problems in ELT. The main goal of the project is to improve the methods in ELT and have participants more affective in using and understanding ELT. We also aim to compare education system in ELT in Turkey to Romania. Karaman İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü – Turkey coordinator Casa Corpului Didactic Botosani – Romania coordinator TOPIC-21 – Foreign language teaching and learning TOPIC-47 – Quality and evaluation of education TOPIC-5 - Basic skills

The project will be carried out between two partners; Turkey and Romania so it will be studied on according to two different education system of foreign language teaching. Besides sharing experiences in teaching English as a foreign language, each partner will learn much more about partner country in terms of its own history, geography, education system, tradition, customs and culture so that it will improve the each partner as a European dimension. Also we will contribute to improve the system of foreign language teaching and learning at different levels of education. It will consider particular areas of teaching foreign languages such as curricula, materials, methodology, class management, educational technology and assessment techniques. The project will be carried out in two parts. One part is related to difficulties, problems and solutions for these problems of English teaching for teachers and education sectors. The second part consists of new methods and ways in teaching English as a foreign language. So it is aimed to raise awareness of new, different and creative methods in teaching English and have a collaboration experience in the international area through meetings, observations, practicing the best application and sharing experiences.

Our concrete objectives of this project and partnership are: 1.To improve the quality of teaching language education system and to raise quality of language education system by applying new approaches and finding out new ways for English language teaching and minimize the difficulties 2. To improve participants' (teachers, directors, students) competence in ICT and their ability in terms of communication in English 3. To identify the problems, especially Critical Problems while teaching English and find solutions for them by using creativeness 4. To ensure the participants be aware of new approaches and find new ways in teaching languages

The expected results are: - an increase of quality at teaching language education - raising awareness of new approaches and methods in teaching English as a foreign language - a better and more efficient understanding of education system between partners - a development of dialogue between the partners - a development of collaboration between partners by group working - creating a website and sharing the products of project through a platform - organizing round tables, communication sessions on education problems - realizing some products of the activities - facilitating the collaboration and communication of the parents with all the factors involved into the educational process - making activities of monitoring, evaluation of it’s own activity

Both partners (Turkey and Romania) will meet different modules of teaching and organization. They are aware of the fact that although they know the same language and communicate with each other, they sometimes have problems in understanding each other. They will identify the common problems of using and teaching English. Also they will identify the new methods of teaching, learning and find ways to solve them together. The partners will improve effective communication and cooperation together. Sharing experiences, exchanges of these experiences, making analyses by comparing the education system of partners through comparative studies, meetings, the joint information sessions, awareness campaigns, dissemination activities, monitoring and evaluation will have an important role and factor in improving cooperation and collaboration among regions and in affirming the European dimension of the project. So it will provide the sustainability of the project.

All participants will develop their competence in ICT by having s, video conferences and s and web cams contact between the partners will be recorded and kept during the project (Objective 1). A web page and platform will be prepared. Communication and collaboration between the partners will be increased (Objective 2). Critical problems will be identified and creative solutions will be found through the meetings of teachers, questionnaires and its results will be discussed at a round table (Objective 3). The seminar related to the new approaches and the results and impacts of them over the teachers will be discussed (Objective 4). Also CDs taken while teaching will be also a sign of evaluation of the project. Evaluation and monitoring activities will be observed the results of comparison of the term before the project and after the project. Also forum we done in our website, we check the ideas and thoughts of participants. We will evaluated with the result of questionnaires at the end of the project to compare the term and problems. During evaluating, teachers and staff will write a page to express their ideas of the project and progress of it. Testing modules in classrooms will help to evaluate the project, too. We believe this project will improve the creativeness of teachers and staff to create new solutions or methods in language teaching (Generally, for all objectives).

Each partner will have a website and this website will have a Comenius Regio area to display information about the project and also include a platform to share experiences and ideas. So each participating school will also publish the all project activities on their school web-sites. Also participants of the project and other person will share their ideas through the platform created in the website. They will come together at the meetings aimed to raise awareness and discuss about problems and solutions. At national/European level, meetings result will be published in a magazine and booklet. Power Point presentations, seminars, information, articles in the school magazine and local newspapers, TV, organizing symposium, theatrical performance will disseminate the results of the project. What is more is to publish a handbook so it will also disseminate the project. The all information of the project and feedback will be published in a handbook and it will be distributed in each partner. Local media and lifelong learning community will be informed about the whole activities. So, others of the wider community will be informed of the project and will be ready to share our work with others.

We believe our collaboration with the partner region will continue because we are thinking of working together in a new project after this project. At the end of the project, we will compare the quality of language teaching education system in terms of the terms before and after the project in our own regions. We will go on using the new approaches in English language teaching and inform each other via s, letters or skype. A new project under Lifelong Learning Projects after this project is being thought with partner region. (May be Leonardo da Vinci- VETPRO; to inform English teachers to disseminate the projects between these partners). We think it is extremely important to improve ourselves and English language teaching system in order to communicate and open our doors through English because it is mostly used.

Karaman Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu – Turkey Casa Corpului Didactic Botosani – Romania Thank you!