Innovation in Language Learning

This paper attempts to point out how an adult learner, through his studies in an educational programme, can improve his or her speech and also social position. The establishment of Second Chance Schools is a part of the European Union for Lifelong Education. Greece is consistent with this

policy, as the Greek society recognizes SCS as a necessity.Within the SCS, especially in Mytilene, not only Greeks attend but also foreigners, economic migrants who came to our country 10 or 20 years

ago, repatriates as well as refugees and asylum seekers from the recent conflicts in the Middle East.

SCS of Mytilene confronts 'difference' as a challenge in a constant search for appropriate methods of providing knowledge and for creating conditions that ensure the smooth co-existence and respect of

the diversity of cultures.A powerful weapon here is to learn a common language, Greek. Innovative techniques are adopted such as peer - mentoring. Peer-mentoring means assistance from one person

to another in order to make significant improvement in knowledge, ways of working or thinking.

sharing wisdom, skills and experience with others, to help them grow and learn. An equal relationship where the mentors and trainees learn from each other, trust and respect each other. The trainer in

the workshop of language takes the role of facilitator, utilizes the potential of the group, defines roles and coordinates. Thus reinforcement and peer-mentoring is applied. Adult learners with a very good performance in Greek language, the "mentors", undertake to train a person or group of co-learners with weaknesses in the subject. The purpose of mentoring is not to provide solutions or answers to problems, but to be available at all times to advise and explain how learners could achieve their goal.

In an attempt to explain the technique for good practice in language learning within multicultural environments, and how the whole idea got started, it will be presented here.