Innovation in Language Learning

How can language teaching be innovative and at the same time international?

How is it possible for the European Language Label to inspire teachers and language professionals to bring forward a new, effective and joyful learning within language education?

A lot of schools and organisations provide creative learning by previously unknown approaches to language learning – it is important to lighten these activities to more people!

How can Erasmus+ mobility projects and partnerships contribute to a qualitative development of language pedagogy?

To figure out some of this, a thematic seminar on language teaching in an international perspective, “Innovative language teaching by international collaboration”, was held in December last year in connection with the award of the European Language Label 2014 at the Swedish Ministry of Education and the Swedish Council of Higher Education.

There was a new concept – to use the European Language Label award to get people more interested in collaboration within the European programs such as Erasmus+ and Nordplus.

The objective of the seminar was to get language teachers together in a thematic way to be able to discuss what a language project of high quality implies and how to reach an increased dissemination of the method, language course or product, which is the result of the project. The focus on this seminar was on success factors, project examples and exchanges of experience, this by workshops and networking (during the programme of an internal day).

Innovative ideas of high quality, able to be spread in a sustainable way to teachers and organisations, were presented at the seminar and they were all connected to ICT.

This year, there will be a continued thematic seminar on the same idea with deeper focus on ICT.