Denmark: experts involved in ECML activities

10th International Conference of the Education and Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Association (EDiLiC) will take place in person at the University of Copenhagen on 28-30 June 2023. It will be a forum for dialogue between all those engaged in research and practice in plurilingual education, pluricultural education, in Content and Language Integrated Learning, and the intersections between these fields. The particular focus of the conference will be on spaces of transitions, continuity, and disruptions across educational levels and learning contexts from early childhood to adulthood.

So far, the EDiLiC conferences have been held in France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Copenhagen as the venue for the 10th EDiLiC conference opens new opportunities for collaborations between the Nordic countries and the countries that are traditionally represented in EDiLiC.

Presentation of papers, workshops, and panel sessions can take place in English, French, and the Scandinavian languages.

Confirmed collaborative plenary speakers are:

• Britta Hufeisen & Anne Holmen
• Heike Speitz, Tom Steffensen, Anne Pitkänen-Huhta & Åsta Haukås
• Nathalie Auger & Danièle Moore
• Petra Daryai-Hansen, Natascha Drachmann & Line Krogager Andersen
• Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer & Joana Duarte
• Ulrike Jessner & Line Møller Daugaard

Find more information and the call for papers here.

Local organiser: Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska, Aarhus University

ECML experts: Rita Juknevičienė, Lithuania; Gábor Szabó, Hungary

Participants: 17; teachers, teacher trainers, curriculum developers, item writers

On 12-13 March 2019, the ECML Contact Point Denmark - The Danish National Centre for Foreign Languages - invited ECML experts in Copenhagen to provide a training and consultancy on Relating foreign language curricula to Common European Framework of Reference (RELANG). The aim of the training and consultancy activity using RELANG tools was to improve the alignment of Danish tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and Companion Volume. The focus was in particular on tests and examinations in upper secondary schools.

The participants (language teachers at university and university college, primary, secondary and upper secondary school and language consultants at the Ministry of Education) were inspired and received inspiration and clear directions on how to relate existing Danish tests and examinations to CEFR levels and descriptors. Participants gained a deeper knowledge of CEFR descriptors and received practical guidance on how to revise learning outcomes and link them to relevant CEFR levels. Participants worked on all linking phases: familiarization, specification, standardization and benchmarking. The participants were also asked to develop valid exams items for oral and written production related to the CEFR and Companion Volume. In addition, external assessment materials provided by the Danish participants and ECML experts were discussed during the training and the participants tried to link them to the CEFR levels. Some of the RELANG materials will be adapted/modified to fit a particular institutional context. 

Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska, local organiser

25 March 2019

• Programme
• ECML project website: RELANG – EU-ECML cooperation agreement 2018-2019 "Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning"

The ECML expert team of the activity “A pluriliteracies approach to teaching for learning” discussed details of their 2019 training workshops with local organisers from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Greece, and Poland at the ECML in Graz.

More information on the individual training sessions will soon be available on the dedicated website.

The “Courriel européen des langues”, the online magazine which is edited twice a year by the International Centre for Pedagogical Studies (CIEP), has been relaunched with renewed contents and a refreshing layout. The current issue highlights 6 ongoing ECML projects, giving the floor to the project coordinators and a project team member, as well as to teachers in the field. In addition, the National Contact Point for the ECML highlights the new national language strategy in Denmark. Finally, a section presents 11 recent resources (online materials, publications).

The Courriel is disseminated in French on the CIEP website and on its LISEO portal (see dedicated section “Courriel européen des langues”). You can subscribe for free to the Magazine and find the archives here: http://www.ciep.fr/lettres-information/courriel-europeen-langues.

Contents of Issue no. 40 – May 2018 (only available in French):

Focus sur le projet EOL

• EOL – Des environnements d’apprentissage optimisés pour et par les langues
  Article de Jonas ERIN, Inspecteur général de l’éducation nationale, coordinateur européen du projet EOL
• Témoignages
  • Le projet EOL au collège André Chénier (Carcassonne)
    Témoignage d’Émilie Courtejaire, avec la collaboration de Selvi Gras, professeur d’anglais et professeur d’espagnol au collège André Chénier, coordinatrice du projet EOL pour le collège
  • Le projet EOL au lycée Les 7 Mares (Maurepas)
    Témoignage de Noëlle Sédilot-Gasmi, Professeure d’espagnole et coordinatrice de la discipline, initiatrice et coordinatrice du projet EOL pour le lycée

Autres projets du CELV

• Le projet e-lang - Vers une littératie numérique pour l’enseignement et l’apprentissage des langues
  Article de Christian Ollivier, Professeur des universités à l’université de La Réunion, coordinateur du projet e-lang
• La/les langue(s) de scolarisation : une feuille de route pour les établissements scolaires
  Article de Rebecca DAHM, Maître de conférences en didactique des langues, ESPE Midi-Pyrénées – Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, coordinatrice du projet Langue(s) de scolarisation
• Le projet QualiMatrix dans sa dernière année de développement
  Article de Gudrun ERICKSON, University of Gothenburg, Department of Education and Special Education, documentaliste du projet QualiMatrix

Actualités

• Développer la conscience linguistique dans les matières scolaires : appel à contribution pour les enseignants de DNL
• Vers un Cadre européen commun de référence pour les enseignants de langues : trois instruments à l’honneur en 2018
• La Gazette européenne des langues

L’enseignement des langues au Danemark

• Entretien avec Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska, point de contact national du Danemark
  Propos recueillis par Marion Latour et Bernadette Plumelle

Ressources

• À explorer sur internet
  • Label européen des langues : EUROBAC
  • Écrire en plusieurs langues : dossier réactualisé « Intégrer le numérique en classes de langues »
  • Dossier thématique « La mémorisation : Dans quelle mesure le numérique permet-il de créer des situations d’apprentissage efficace ? »
  • Audio Lingua : 5 000 fichiers audio en 13 langues
  • Radio Garden : écouter en direct toutes les radios nationales, locales ou web du monde
  • 7 nouveaux kits eTwinning pour monter un projet eTwinning
• Vient de paraître

The European Language Gazette, the ECML's e-newsletter, provides up-to-date news about the ECML (events, projects, resources), the Language Policy Unit and other relevant sectors of the Council of Europe, as well as our partners. It focuses on national developments in the field of language education in the member states and beyond.

Issue no. 33 (September - October 2016): available in English and in French. 

The School of Communication and Culture of Aarhus University, the National Contact Point and Nominating Authority for the ECML in Denmark, has developed this resource. Apart from the ECML projects, it is intended to add other language pedagogical projects.

• ECML project database

• Website of the National Contact Point

• ECML web pages dedicated to Denmark: official ECML contacts, experts from Denmark involved in ECML projects, resources relating to language education in Denmark

The National Contact Point for the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) in Denmark offers an informative website dedicated to the work of the Centre including information about projects, workshops and other events, participation and networking opportunities, as well as ways to stay informed about ECML related developments.

• Discover the website at http://ecml.dk/ (available in Danish)
• National Contact Point for the ECML in Denmark: Mr. Frits Overgaard Sørensen, Aarhus University (contact details)

"Developing plurilingual education in the Nordic and Baltic countries"  - Conference of the DELA-NOBA project (25 April, 2016)

"How to define learning objectives in plurilingual education? The FREPA descriptors as a tool in early foreign language education"  (26 April, 2016)

Moderators: Anna Maria Curci and Michel Candelier

Participants: 50 participants (25 April), 10 participants (26 April)

The training and consultancy workshop that took place in Copenhagen on 25-26 April, was held within the final conference of the DELA-NOBA project, which focused on the development of language awareness in the Nordic and Baltic countries (project financed by Nordplus Horizontal). It was comprised of two sections:

• a  training component within the DELA-NOBA final conference (25 April), with the aim of broadening  current perspectives to move  towards other pluralistic approaches beyond language awareness, and  in particular the integrated didactics of languages;
• an advisory component (26 April), more explicitly designed for educational leaders and Danish teacher trainers, regarding the contribution of FREPA descriptors in defining educational objectives for the teaching of languages to young children.

The participants, both those with or without previous expertise in the area of language awareness, expressed their willingness to engage in a global perspective of plurilingual and intercultural training supported by pluralistic approaches and by FREPA. The event provided the opportunity to work with teachers on the one hand, and with researchers and teacher trainers on the other, the latter having the chance to cooperate with educational decision-makers. Follow-up actions are foreseen, both in the field of teacher training and in international cooperation through the creation of an online platform.

Related resources:

• The FREPA website  
• The ECML website section dedicated to training and consultancy “Plurilingual and intercultural competences: descriptors and teaching materials (FREPA)”