sun.com- language learning through an online community

SUN.COMSustainable Networking through a Language Learning

Community

Project Presentation

Final Conference- Bucharest

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IntroductionMain aim: To form a methodology and develop a platform in order to promote language learning through informal language learning communities

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Languages that are offeredMain emphasis on the less used and spoken languages

Greek

Italian

Russian

Albanian

Slovenian

Latvian

Polish

Czech

Romanian

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Partners Action Synergy (Greece)

HCC (Greece)

AΝUP (Romania)

LCC (UK)

IEIE (Germany)

BSW (Germany)

Universita’ Orientale (Italy)

Baltic Bright (Latvia)

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Basic Concepts Learning happening as a result of social interaction that is taking place between the users of the platform

There are no teachers and students: there are learners that are willing to learn a language, other learners and native speakers willing to support them in this learning process and moderators that coordinate the activities of the community

The users are able to share educational material with each other

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Target Groups Foreign language teachers

Foreign language learners

Native speakers of the languages that are being learnt

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Data from the platform (until 8.4.2014)

• For the period June 2013 – 8. April 2014

• 637 registered users

• 615 active users

• 309 forum threads

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Main Resources of the Community

SunLangCom Platform

http://sunlangcom.vision-solutions.gr

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Main Resources of the Community

Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/SuNCommunity

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Activities realised in the community

Discussions in the forum

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Activities realised in the community

Discussions in the forum

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Language Learning Material

Practice the language through language learning material

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Synchronous Events

Participate in Synchronous Language Learning Events

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Meet other people that speak or learn the language

Meet people through the community

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Learn about the culture of the country

Learn information about the culture of the country that you learn the language of

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Competitions

• Share a language and win a tablet (competition for the most active users of the community per language)

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Teacher Training Seminars

• SuNLangCom online seminars for teachers

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