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 creates opportunities for pre- and in-service teachers to connect through an online eTwinning community offering support for their Virtual Exchange (VE) projects. It also includes the development of a teacher education module, which will be integrated into partner universities curricula and offered as an online professional development course. The project aims to promote VE in early language education, enhance teachers’ VE skills, and strengthen cultural, linguistic, and digital competences for both teachers and young learners.
Virtual Exchange and INVITED
Outcomes
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Publications
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Resources
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News & Events
Presentation at the 2nd International Early Language Learning Conference in Granada, Spain
Two of the Spanish team members of the Invited Project presented the results of our survey on VE for in-service and pre-service teachers at the 2nd International Early Language Learning Conference held in Granada from 5-6th September 2024. It was great to catch up...
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.