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Virtual Language App
The VirtuLApp project team are organising their first multiplier event to discuss language diversity and new technologies in primary education along with the first project outputs. This event is hosted by project partner Luca School of Arts in Ghent and takes place on Thursday afternoon, 17 October and Friday morning 18 October. It includes a…
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At the 40th International Linguistics Conference organised by the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), we presented the VirtuLApp project in a poster session at the 20th of June 2019. At the conference current topics in all fields of linguistics were discussed. Our 1-minute pitch was well received and made participants curious to find out more…
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Three of our team members, Margherita Burdese, Marlous Visser and Lisanne de Jong, (Mercator/Fryske Akademy) have presented the VirtuLApp project with a poster at the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages, held in Leeuwarden from 22-24 May. Almost 250 researchers, policy makers, students and others interested in minority languages participated this conference. The poster session…
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Teaching in Diversity, Teach-D for short, was an Erasmus+ KA2 project that created resources for teachers interested in enhancing their skills in diversity management. Led by the European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI), the project included 9 partners from different EU countries. One of the outcomes of the project is a Handbook on Teaching in…
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According as the number of children attending schools in Europe has become more diverse in terms of language, it is hardly surprising that the European Commission has been putting extra resources into the topic of Multilingual Classrooms. This site provides an interesting overview of the Commission’s activities in this area and includes links to several…
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Material for the first of the VirtuLApp didactic videos was recorded on 13 March in the Openbare basisschool Twa Fjilden in Joure. The VirtuLApp team took a ‘fly on the wall’ approach and recorded a series of different multilingual learning activities led by the teacher, Gerrie Bakker. Interviews with several pupils and Gerrie along with…
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To disseminate VirtuLApp’s goals, activities and products, the partners organize five Multiplier Events in each partner country, to which VirtuLApp’s stakeholders will be invited. The VirtuLApp team will organize special workshops during these events in which experts in multilingualism will share their knowledge with the stakeholders, and in return the stakeholders are asked to share their…
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The kick-off meeting of VirtuLApp took place at 15 and 16 October 2018 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. The meeting was hosted by the Mercator European Research Centre.
