1. Project overview www.tellp.org
Gee Macrory

2. Aims of the day Description of a Comenius funded project
Locating the project in the wider picture
Dissemination and impact
Implementation in new contexts

3. Project details
Project title: Technologically Enhanced Language Learning Pedagogy
Comenius Multilateral Projects
Ref: UK-COMENIUS-CMP

4. Personnel Gee Macrory, Project Manager
José Luis Ortega, Universidad de Granada
Lucette Chrétien, Université de Poitiers
TDA support
Jo Clark, Stretford High School

5. Background to project
TDA: Collaborative technologies in languages initiative (CTLI)
International project: six primary schools, three initial teaching training (ITT) institutions and local authorities and regional governments in England, France and Spain working together using a shared curriculum to develop and improve the teaching and learning of languages.

6. The TELLP remit
To provide an innovative teacher training context in 3 countries
To develop effective pedagogy
To establish impact of a holistic, cross- curricular technologically driven approach to language learning on:

7. Processes of children’s learning
Development of intercultural understanding
Children’s motivations
School community
Wider school curriculum

8. Teacher trainees
Core focus group of the 3 universities’ project is teacher trainees
Trainees will:
acquire skills of planning effective video- conferencing sessions between international classes
gain familiarity with primary pedagogy in the partner countries
engage in joint planning (home and abroad)
carry our focussed observation of impact of use of technology on children’s learning

9. Activities Preparation/introduction at home university
VC in home school and/or on placement abroad – observing, assisting, leading
Preparation of material for LP
Interviewing children and staff involved
Preparing class for VC/working with LP

10. What the day holds…
Jo Clark – overview of the CTLI and the schools project
Our European partners, José Luis Ortega- Martín and Lucette Chrétien
The teachers and children: their experiences of a new approach to language learning
Trainee teachers’ experience of the project
Summary of findings
Ways forward for a range of contexts