About the project
The INVITED project — Integrating Primary and Pre-school Virtual Exchange Projects into Language Teacher Education, is a transnational initiative involving five universities in Germany, Spain, Poland, Slovenia and the UK.
Project Aims
Objectives:
1. Promote VE projects in primary and pre-school language education
2. Develop teachers’ competencies regarding VE by integrating VE projects with young learners into pre- and in-service language teacher education.
Impact:
The project provides opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to connect through the online community and offers support for their VE projects. It develops a teacher education module that will be part of the partners´ curricula and made available as an online professional development course. The outcomes will help promote the use of VE in early language education, develop teachers´ competences regarding VE and foster children´s and teachers cultural, linguistic and digital competences.
Virtual Exchange and INVITED
Whether you’re a student, teacher, teacher trainer, researcher, or Virtual Exchange enthusiast, here you can access all the information about Virtual Exchange and the INVITED project. Access essential resources and guidelines to successfully implement Virtual Exchange projects in your classroom, delve into research publications and studies from our partners and affiliates, and read more about the key highlights that showcase the impact and achievements of the INVITED project.
Outcomes
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Publications
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Resources
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News & Events
Guest talk at the University of Erfurt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Annika Kolb of the University of Education of Freiburg held a talk titled “Virtual Exchange in the young learners´ EFL classroom”, as a guest speaker at the University of Erfurt. Prof. Kolb, among many things, shared the ongoing project progress of
Presenting at the ELLRA
The project team, led by Dr. Mateja Dagarin Fojkar of the University of Ljubljana and Dr. Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt of the University of Warsaw, as well as with Tina Rozmaric and Nurjona Pinguri, presented the project and the ongoing results of the survey at the ELLRA...
Guest Talk 4
INVITED had the pleasure to host a talk from Magdalena Dybiżbańska-Klinkosz, who is an award-winning preschool teacher from Gdańsk (Poland) involved in many eTwinning projects. The talk was attended by interested students and teachers from Germany and Poland.
Guest Talk 3
On the last day of the Kick-Off meeting, Seda Hava AK, a recent graduate of the MA programme E-LINGO at the University of Education of Freiburg, shared her experience conducting a Virtual Exchange project with preschool learners in Turkey and Nigeria.
Guest Talk 2
On the last day of the Kick-Off meeting, Prof. Dr. Rafaelle Beecroft (PH Karlsruhe) presented a classroom example of a Virtual Exchange Project with learners in Germany and Japan.
Guest Talk 1
On the 30th of November 2023, INVITED hosted a guest talk by Begoña Clavel-Arroitia and Barry Pennock-Speck (Universitat de Valencia - IULMA) with the title “Research, Experiences and Materials on VE with Primary School Learners”. They are currently part of the...