From Einstein to ELT 11/8/2015www.stevedarn.com1
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein 11/8/2015www.stevedarn.com2
Schools and universities decide what they are going to teach. The Common European Framework is an exam. The Bologna Process has nothing to do with Turkey. CLIL is a new ELT method. British people don’t need to learn other languages. We teach British or American English. ELT is an academic discipline. If my children finish university, they will get good jobs. None of this affects me 11/8/2015www.stevedarn.com3
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11/8/ Personality competent Inter- personality competent Inter- culturally competent Communicatively competent Media competent
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EU -Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom EFTA/EEA - Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Turkey Comenius : To involve at least three million students in joint educational activities. Erasmus : To contribute to the achievement of three million individual participants in student mobility. Leonardo da Vinci : To increase placements in enterprises to 80,000 per year. 11/8/2015www.stevedarn.com10
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11/8/ The cost of translation in all EU institutions is estimated at €800 million p.a. The EU has 23 official languages
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‘The distance is nothing – it is the first step that is difficult’ 11/8/2015