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Languages Connect Projects

Linguist Award Founder 2024

Launch of a new UCD competition award for MFL (Modern Foreign Languages), for Primary and Post-Primary students. This award will aim to recognise the linguistic endeavours of Primary and Post-Primary students.

The students being awarded will have to demonstrate first and foremost a love of languages and culture. They will submit projects around a yearly theme which will help to promote the value of learning a Modern Foreign Language.

This award is partly funded with the help of Languages Connect (https://languagesconnect.ie/about/).

This year's theme centers around culture and identity.

We invite students to reflect on these questions: what is my culture? How do I learn about other people's culture?

The entries could be, for example on:

Country Exploration: Pupils will discover fun facts about the country, such as its location on the map, its flag, and interesting landmarks.

Culture Comparison: Pupils will focus on customs, traditions, and daily life. They'll identify both similarities and differences to foster cultural understanding.

Delicious Dishes: Pupils will explore the country's cuisine and select a traditional dish to showcase. They can create a simplified recipe card with images and easy-to-follow steps.

Sports and Games: Pupils will learn about sports and games enjoyed in the target language-speaking country.

Musical Journey: Pupils will discover the music of the chosen country, including famous songs or instruments. They can listen to music samples and even create a mini musical performance.

This list is not exhaustive!

Language Tasters for #ThinkLanguages

Organised Language Tasters in French, Chinese and Japanese as part of #ThinkLanguages initiative, in collaboration with the UCD Conficius and Japanese Center.

These workshops were geared towards TY students.

See more here: https://languagesconnect.ie/at-third-level/

START Erasmus+ (Supporting teachers who support student transition)

Involved in the Erasmus project - https://supportingstart.eu/

The START project focuses on promoting inclusive excellence in higher education teaching. More specifically, START seeks to equip academics who work with first-year students with competences required to set all students up for success.

Those who teach first-year students have a special role to play in making higher education inclusive. Simply granting access to diverse students, and then leaving them to own resources is not enough. Students need to be supported in this transition, so that every student can thrive and succeed. This is especially true for first-generation, international and older students, as well as for all students coming from less represented socio-economic backgrounds.

Academics, in turn, need support of faculty developers and institutional authorities in order to develop awareness, skills and competences required to support diverse students in their transition to higher education.

START works to put together professional development resources that can support academics in their efforts to support student transition to higher education.

TAP-TS ERASMUS+ (Teacher Academy Project-Teaching Sustainability)

Involved in the Summer Academy of this project - https://tap-ts.eu/

Title: LEARNING, TEACHING AND REFLECTING ON SUSTAINABILITY

The 1st Summer School (SS1) that took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, on 26th – 30th June 2023 focused mainly on piloting materials, resources and activities already developed under the Learning and Teaching Packages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Work Package 2 of the TAP-TS project). It also offered plenty of reflection opportunities regarding resources and activities and aimed at starting a community of educators who promote education for sustainability. Moreover, the Summer School offered participating teachers (pre-service and in-service) ideas regarding approaches and practices that can be used to facilitate learning and teaching sustainability.

https://tap-ts.eu/course/view.php?id=39&section=1

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