SpanIT is a project that wants to support adults in langauge laerning in the tourism field, esepcially migrants and Erasmus participants, by using an innovative teaching and learning methodology.
EUROSTAT (in 2021 ) states 1.9m migrants entered the EU, all from non-EU countries. EUROSTAT (2020) data underlines the most popular languages studied are French, Spanish, Italian, German. For Europe multilingualism is a strategy for “strengthening social cohesion, intercultural dialogue and European construction”
With this project the partners plan to:
1. Improve of at least 25% the reception of adult students such as migrants/Erasmus participants
2. Learn innovative teaching methods/tools and strategies to recruite new types of migrants/students not so easy to approach (+25%)
4. Reduce the problems which affect multiethnic learning contexts (-20%)
5. Create an advanced team of Spanish for foreigners/Italian L2 teachers with inclusive methodologies (+30%)
6. Improve of at least 25% the management of multiethnic/multigenerational classes with innovative methodologies based on languages card game
7. Increase of 50% the internationalization/modernization of the adult training centres
8. Growth of 30% of the 2 ngos with new language courses/exchange of best practices about inclusion/language teaching methods
9. Include new targets of migrants/Erasmus participants/people with low basic skills (+30%)
10. Shorten and improving team building techniques in multiethnic/multigenerational classes with non-formal, inclusive methods to dispel prejudices. Feeling part of a united group improves learning (+30%).
11. Promote European values of inclusion and non-discrimination to underline the importance of cultural diversity (+50%)
Adult students exploit a second chance coming to our courses. KEEPING THEM MOTIVATED, FEELING INCLUDED, prevents a definitive abandonment. So the motivation has to be very high and to do so an effective strategy to include them and provide the right tools to work with allows to overcome the obstacles in the process of long-term integration or orientation in a new place. Non-formal methodologies can improve critical thinking and especially creativity in a innovative way and make teachers and students more motivated. Moreover, migrants/learners/prisoners (as EUSA works with prisoners as well) are used to write more than to oral communications, so it is essential to create a pleasant atmosphere and
to implement good methods for a good team-building. Getting self-confident practising in our language courses will make their social/labour market inclusion quicker and easier.
Our classes are variegated in terms of ages/backgrounds, both for students and teachers, cooperation will develop an intergenerational /intercultural dialoge to disseminate European values of inclusion, diversity and non-discrimination.