How this course works
Before we start, we would like to highlight the timeline of this course to help you plan your learning and successfully complete the course.
The course is divided into 4 modules, including a final assignment:
Module 1 – Getting Started with Language Learning and eTwinning
Module 2 – eTwinning and Language Learning
Module 3 – Content and Language Integrated Learning
Module 4 – Developing an eTwinning Project
Course schedule
Live events are optional. They do not count toward passing the course but are a great opportunity to discuss live with the course team!
We highly recommend you keep a learning diary, meaning a collection of notes, observations, thoughts and other relevant materials built up over the duration of this course.
Behind the course
Course designer – Efi Saltidou is a pedagogical coordinator and designer at European Schoolnet, where she has worked since 2017. She is an instructional designer and course coordinator for Teacher Academy, and she supports the pedagogical and professional development activities in Future Classroom Lab and other projects. Efi was first a classroom teacher, specialising in educational technology and special education.
Supporting expert – Letizia Cinganotto is former Senior Researcher at INDIRE (National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research), Italy, currently teaches language teaching at University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy. She holds a PhD in synchronic, diachronic and applied Linguistics. She is a member of different working groups and scientific committees on CLIL and language learning both at national and international level. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals and five volumes on CLIL. She is a member of the consultancy team of the “Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning” (PTDL) project promoted by the European Centre of Modern Languages of the Council of Europe.
Supporting expert – Daniela Cuccurullo is Tesol Italy vice-President, and an adjunct Professor of English at the Universities of Naples (Suor Orsola Benincasa); she is also a Secondary School teacher of English and teacher trainer. Engaged in research on PLE/PLN and on teaching ESL and EFL through multimedia, she is the author/editor of e-courses, MOOCS, books, essays reviews and translations. She is also a qualified expert in the field of ERASMUS projects and school evaluation and is National Ambassador for EUN Teacher Academy. At present she is working with CLIL at national/international levels as a new approach to language learning.
If you have any questions while going through the modules, please feel free to ask other participants on the forum or get in touch with the technical support.