2. ELP-WSU ELP-WSU: an introduction

3. ELP-WSU Why ELP-WSU?

4. ELP-WSU Three functions of the ELP To develop Learner autonomy Intercultural awareness Plurilingualism

5. ELP-WSU Learner autonomy Reflective self-management in learning Central role played by ELP’s self-assessment checklists in planning, monitoring and evaluating learning Using checklists in the target language helps to develop learners’ metacognitive capacity in the target language Tendency to focus on the learning of individual languages (cf. the experience of the ELP pilot projects, 1998−2000)

6. ELP-WSU Intercultural awareness Different relations between language and culture Importance of recognizing similarity as well as difference Much can be achieved via the learning of one foreign language Much more can be achieved by exploring the intercultural experience derived from learning two or more languages Whole-school ELP projects do greater justice to the intercultural dimension of ELP use

7. ELP-WSU Plurilingual repertoires Our plurilingual repertoires comprise –Proficiency in L1, L2, L3 … Ln –The ways in which we can exploit that proficiency in communication, which will sometimes entail using more than one language (cf. the ELP-WSU guide for examples) By definition plurilingual repertoires involve three or more languages We respond adequately to this dimension of the ELP only by creating a new curriculum/timetable space in which learners and teachers of all languages offered by the school can come together to explore the nature and communicative/intercultural potential of pupils’ plurilingual repertoires

8. ELP-WSU ELP-WSU: the project

9. ELP-WSU Project team David Little (Ireland) − coordinator Francis Goullier (France) Rosi Öhler (Austria) Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti (Switzerland) Marnie Beaudoin (Canada; associate member)

10. ELP-WSU Focus and aims The role of the ELP in whole-school development processes, embracing stakeholders at different levels (students, parents, teachers, head teachers) Aims –to identify whole-school projects that already exist –to support the implementation of new whole-school projects –to study the impact of such projects on schools, teachers and learners –to develop a guide to the design, implementation and management of whole-school ELP projects –to communicate project outcomes to decision makers

11. ELP-WSU Process Participants in the project’s central workshop should be either already involved in a whole-school ELP project or in a position to design and implement such a project Whole-school project implementation to be supported by online communication and reporting and by the network meeting in the third year of the project

12. ELP-WSU Products A guide to the development, implementation and evaluation of whole-school ELP projects available as –Printed booklet –Downloadable PDF file A set of case studies of (whole-school) ELP projects –Available on ELP-WSU website –Five in French, five in English –Summaries in both languages

13. ELP-WSU Timeline 2008 May: Meeting of project group to discuss aims and working methods and prepare the project workshop October: Project workshop –Exchange of information on existing whole-school ELP projects and planning of new projects –Discussion of 1.Criteria for the evaluation of whole-school ELP projects 2.The structure and content of case studies 3.The structure and content of the guide to planning, implementing and evaluating whole-school ELP projects

14. ELP-WSU Timeline 2009 November: Meeting of project group to discuss interim reports from project network (case studies) and the form and content of the guide 2010 April: Network meeting - presentation and discussion of draft case studies December: Meeting of project group to work on final reports from project network and draft guide and to prepare dissemination workshop

15. ELP-WSU Timeline 2011 May: Dissemination workshop − presentation and discussion of project results and outcomes June: Final meeting of project group 29 September−1 October: presentation of project results and outcomes at closing conference of the ECML’s third medium-term programme

16. ELP-WSU Countries involved Project workshop, October 2008: AlbaniaGermanyRomania ArmeniaGreeceSlovenia AustriaHungarySpain CyprusIrelandSweden Czech RepublicLatviaRussian Federation FinlandLithuaniaUK (Scotland) FranceNorway FYRMPoland

17. ELP-WSU Countries involved Network meeting, April 2010: AlbaniaHungaryRomania AustriaIcelandRussian Federation Czech RepublicLithuaniaSweden GreeceNorway

18. ELP-WSU Countries involved Final case study reports submitted from: AlbaniaHungaryNorway AustriaIcelandRomania Czech RepublicLithuaniaRussian Federation Greece

19. ELP-WSU Countries involved Dissemination workshop, May 2011: Albania Austria Armenia Bosnia/Herzegovina Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Finland FYR Macedonia France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Latvia Lithuania Malta Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Russian Federation Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland

20. ELP-WSU Presentation of two case studies Russian Federation − Tatiana Yudina Lithuania − Nida Burneikaité