Objectives
- To foster early language learning by helping children in kindergartens develop linguistic competencies and promoting multilingual education across Europe
- To support the linguistic competencies of both educators and parents providing them with useful web-based tools able to encourage bilingual education and language acquisition in early childhood, both in kindergartens and in-home setting
- To help both educators and parents learn how to fully exploit the potential of web-based Open Educational Resources (OER) in easing bilingual education from an early age
Activities
- Research on bilingual and multilingual education in kindergartens
- Research on Open Educational Resources suitable to promote bilingual education for children in pre-school age both in kindergartens and in their family setting
- Delivery of pilot training addressed to educators and parents on how to use OER to foster bilingualism from an early age
Results
- State of the art report on bilingual and multilingual education in kindergartens
- State of the art report on web-based Open Educational Resources for bilingual education
- Guidelines on how to use web-based OER for bilingual education in kindergartens
- Guide and e-course addressed to (1) educators and to (ii) parents on how to use OER to foster bilingualism for children in pre-school age
Partners
- Kindervilla (Austria, coordinator)
- Baby Erasmus (Spain)
- İzmir Özel Fatih Koleji İşletmeleri (Turkey)
- First Private School Leonardo Da Vinci (Bulgaria)
- CARDET – Centre for Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (Cyprus)
