EUROMOBIL - A multimedia language learning programme promoting student mobility
 

Jeg valgte at følge Sabine Ylönen's foredrag om multimedias mulighed for at støtte mobilitet i Europa og også for at se hvordan hun og hendes projektdeltagere havde grebet opgaven at undervise i de mindre udbredte sprog i Europa.

Foredraget gav også et indblik i finsk kultur og den finske "generthed / indelukkethed", det var interessant at læse hendes elevers feedback efter kurset med hvad de fandt spændende i deres møde med finnerne.

Ylönen Sabine & Peltola Johanna
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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EUROMOBIL - A Multimedia Language Learning Programme promoting Student Mobility

Student mobility has become one of the principles in higher education and is supported by several EU programmes and bilateral contracts between educational institutions. Students spending a short period abroad, however, are often lacking in preparation required for the host country, for example information about the country and also communicative skills. EUROMOBIL is a hybrid multimedia language learning and information programme on CD-ROM with links to the web, promoting student mobility. It contains information about the target countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, and Hungary, as well as exercises for improving language skills needed in different communicative situations in the target languages: English, German, Finnish and Hungarian.

Designing computer based materials for communication training on an international scale is a challenge to language teachers, demanding new skills not only in handling the technical and design aspects of the new information and communication technologies, but also in terms of administration and cooperation between teachers from other cultures and professionals from other fields, such as programmers. New media have become increasingly important in language teaching and learning, and EUROMOBIL aims to meet the needs of modern language learning.