Wide Minds, or WiMi, is a Comenius Network, funded by the European Commission from 2008 - 2011. WiMi has partners based in public authorities, teacher training institutes, and universities in 14 different countries, as well as 7 partner schools and 2 associate partners.
The WiMi Network was born out of the experiences of a previous network "Roots & Wings" which ran from 2001 - 2004. It itself was a progression from an older Comenius 1 Project of the same name.
Multilingualism and language awareness
- foreign language learning
- multilingual awareness (i.e. awareness of linguistic diversity)
- (inter-)cultural awareness, competence and dialogue
- linguistic and cultural mediation
The multilingualism work group focused on e-learning models and strategies as well as suitable ICTs (i.e. information and communication technologies) to develop multilingualism.. Special attention was paid to blended language learning and to authentic language learning with culture as well as content and language integrated learning, ‘CLIL’. Moodle was used to guide and support learner activities as well as communication and interaction.
Here is a full presentation of our research on multilingualism.
You can find out more about setting up a language course on Moodle by consulting the Moodle guide Using Moodle for Language Teaching_v1.2 (pdf, 1.5 MB) on our Moodle page.
If you’d like to see language courses, please have a look at the courses teachers have implemented on Moodle.
You can also look at a course focusing more specifically on developing language awareness in a Comenius multilateral partnership.
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