TILA project

3DLES is consortium partner of the European TILA project, which aim is to improving the quality of foreign language teaching and learning processes by means of meaningful telecollaboration among peers: that is the aim of the European project Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA). The project is funded by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme and has run from January 2013 to june 2015.

TILA project site
The TILA project has it's own website where you can find all information on how to use the TILA environment in your classroom.
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Project Objectives

The TILA project seeks:

1. to innovate and enrich language teaching programmes at secondary schools and make them more motivating and effective by stimulating telecollaboration for intercultural awareness with peers of other cultures;
    
2. to empower language teachers and teacher trainers and contribute to the development of their ICT literacy skills and organisational, pedagogical and intercultural competences for telecollaboration, by promoting experiential learning in telecollaboration tasks development, implementation and evaluation;
    
3. to study the possible added value telecollaboration might have in language learning for intercultural understanding of younger learners.

TILA aims to offer actual practice and hands-on experiences in telecollaboration activities. It promotes professional development by addressing digital, intercultural, pedagogical and organisational concerns for the successful integration of telecollaboration practices in language education.

The target languages of the project are English, French, German and Spanish.

TILA consortium
Six countries are represented in the TILA consortium: France, UK, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and Czech Republic. Each country collaborates with a secondary school and a (teacher training) university.

Consortium partners: Utrecht University, Berlage Lyceum (Amsterdam) & 3DLES (The Netherlands); University of Roehampton & The Godolphin & Latymer School (UK); Steinbeis Transfer Center Language Learning Media & Gymnasium Saarburg (Germany); Universidad de Valencia & IES Clot del Moro (Spain); Université de Paris 3 & Collège La Cerisaie (France) & Palacky University (Czech Republic).

Associate partners: 42 institutions from the Netherlands, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Portugal and Italy.