Bd. Mihai Eminescu nr. 40, 710171, Botosani, Romania COM

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New ELT
New Ways in English Language Teaching Through
Sharing Experiences
Bd. Mihai Eminescu nr. 40, 710171, Botosani,
Romania
COM 10 PR 19 BT TR, RO
Tel/Fax [phone]


Isabella CANTEMIR e-mail ccd_botosani_at_yahoo.com
www.ccdbotosani.ro


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The project aims to identify problems about
English language teaching and find new ways such
as creative ideas, new approaches in ELT in order
to minimize the problems in ELT. The main goal
of the project is to improve the methods in ELT
and have participants more affective in using and
understanding ELT. We also aim to compare
education system in ELT in Turkey to
Romania. Karaman Il Milli Egitim Müdürlügü
Turkey coordinator Casa Corpului Didactic
Botosani Romania coordinator
TOPIC-21 Foreign language teaching and
learning TOPIC-47 Quality and evaluation of
education TOPIC-5 - Basic skills
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The project will be carried out between two
partners Turkey and Romania so it will be
studied on according to two different education
system of foreign language teaching. Besides
sharing experiences in teaching English as a
foreign language, each partner will learn much
more about partner country in terms of its own
history, geography, education system, tradition,
customs and culture so that it will improve the
each partner as a European dimension. Also we
will contribute to improve the system of foreign
language teaching and learning at different
levels of education. It will consider particular
areas of teaching foreign languages such as
curricula, materials, methodology, class
management, educational technology and assessment
techniques. The project will be carried out in
two parts. One part is related to difficulties,
problems and solutions for these problems of
English teaching for teachers and education
sectors. The second part consists of new methods
and ways in teaching English as a foreign
language. So it is aimed to raise awareness of
new, different and creative methods in teaching
English and have a collaboration experience in
the international area through meetings,
observations, practicing the best application and
sharing experiences.
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• Our concrete objectives of this project and
  partnership are
• To improve the quality of teaching language
  education system and to raise quality of language
  education system by applying new approaches and
  finding out new ways for English language
  teaching and minimize the difficulties
• 2. To improve participants' (teachers, directors,
  students) competence in ICT and their ability in
  terms of communication in English
• 3. To identify the problems, especially Critical
  Problems while teaching English and find
  solutions for them by using creativeness
• 4. To ensure the participants be aware of new
  approaches and find new ways in teaching languages

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The expected results are - an increase of
quality at teaching language education - raising
awareness of new approaches and methods in
teaching English as a foreign language - a better
and more efficient understanding of education
system between partners - a development of
dialogue between the partners - a development of
collaboration between partners by group working -
creating a website and sharing the products of
project through a platform - organizing round
tables, communication sessions on education
problems - realizing some products of the
activities - facilitating the collaboration and
communication of the parents with all the factors
involved into the educational process - making
activities of monitoring, evaluation of its own
activity
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Both partners (Turkey and Romania) will meet
different modules of teaching and organization.
They are aware of the fact that although they
know the same language and communicate with each
other, they sometimes have problems in
understanding each other. They will identify the
common problems of using and teaching English.
Also they will identify the new methods of
teaching, learning and find ways to solve them
together. The partners will improve effective
communication and cooperation together. Sharing
experiences, exchanges of these experiences,
making analyses by comparing the education system
of partners through comparative studies,
meetings, the joint information sessions,
awareness campaigns, dissemination activities,
monitoring and evaluation will have an important
role and factor in improving cooperation and
collaboration among regions and in affirming the
European dimension of the project. So it will
provide the sustainability of the project.
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• All participants will develop their competence in
  ICT by having e-mails, video conferences and
  e-mails and web cams contact between the partners
  will be recorded and kept during the project
  (Objective 1).
• A web page and platform will be prepared.
  Communication and collaboration between the
  partners will be increased (Objective 2).
• Critical problems will be identified and creative
  solutions will be found through the meetings of
  teachers, questionnaires and its results will be
  discussed at a round table (Objective 3).
• The seminar related to the new approaches and the
  results and impacts of them over the teachers
  will be discussed (Objective 4).
• Also CDs taken while teaching will be also a sign
  of evaluation of the project.
• Evaluation and monitoring activities will be
  observed the results of comparison of the term
  before the project and after the project. Also
  forum we done in our website, we check the ideas
  and thoughts of participants. We will evaluated
  with the result of questionnaires at the end of
  the project to compare the term and problems.
  During evaluating, teachers and staff will write
  a page to express their ideas of the project and
  progress of it. Testing modules in classrooms
  will help to evaluate the project, too.
• We believe this project will improve the
  creativeness of teachers and staff to create new
  solutions or methods in language teaching
  (Generally, for all objectives).

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Each partner will have a website and this website
will have a Comenius Regio area to display
information about the project and also include a
platform to share experiences and ideas. So each
participating school will also publish the all
project activities on their school web-sites.
Also participants of the project and other person
will share their ideas through the platform
created in the website. They will come together
at the meetings aimed to raise awareness and
discuss about problems and solutions. At
national/European level, meetings result will be
published in a magazine and booklet. Power Point
presentations, seminars, information, articles in
the school magazine and local newspapers, TV,
organizing symposium, theatrical performance will
disseminate the results of the project. What is
more is to publish a handbook so it will also
disseminate the project. The all information of
the project and feedback will be published in a
handbook and it will be distributed in each
partner. Local media and lifelong learning
community will be informed about the whole
activities. So, others of the wider community
will be informed of the project and will be ready
to share our work with others.
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We believe our collaboration with the partner
region will continue because we are thinking of
working together in a new project after this
project. At the end of the project, we will
compare the quality of language teaching
education system in terms of the terms before and
after the project in our own regions. We will go
on using the new approaches in English language
teaching and inform each other via e-mails,
letters or skype. A new project under Lifelong
Learning Projects after this project is being
thought with partner region. (May be Leonardo da
Vinci- VETPRO to inform English teachers to
disseminate the projects between these
partners). We think it is extremely important to
improve ourselves and English language teaching
system in order to communicate and open our doors
through English because it is mostly used.
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Thank you!
Casa Corpului Didactic Botosani Romania
www.ccdbotosani.ro
Karaman Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
Turkey http//karaman.meb.gov.tr/