Preparing for the Mobility Programme is an excellent opportunity for teachers to set assignments which draw on digital practices, while preparing students for their time abroad, through the target language. Acquiring these skills is fundamental to becoming pro-active language learners in their host country.
The curriculum is the main focus of students’ attention and a key driver of effort. Students are more likely to adopt digital practices that are clearly relevant to the programme they have chosen and the topics that interest them.
Supporting students to develop online competencies through their target language which are applied in real world contexts (e.g. finding accommodation in the host country), can be motivating, Digilanguages is designed to enrich the academic curriculum incorporating digital literacies and ICC development.
This section focuses on helping the students exploit the full potential of their limited time abroad and provides activities that encourage independent thinking and learning, with an emphasis on ICC through the target language.
See the table below for further information.
| Context of use | Title | Related materials and themes |
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| CPD activities | ||
| Second Language Acquisition and the Mobility Programme | ||
| Activities for teachers to use with their students | ||
| Help students choose their Erasmus destination Help students discover their Erasmus city Exploring new places with Google Maps |
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Independent activities for Students
| Similar activities | Description |
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| Explore the navigation panel for other categories within this theme (click the breadcrumb menu above to expand) | |
| Student accommodation | This activity aims to help you find suitable accommodation abroad while also consolidating your listening and viewing strategies and practicing writing hypertexts. |
| University life in the target language country | This activity introduces you to university life in your target language destination, and practice your listening and viewing strategies. You can extend this task by performing research for your mobility programme destination and sharing your findings on a class blog or forum, or practice your search, multimedia, tagging, hypertext literacies by creating your own travel page using an online tool. |
| Everyday life in the target language country | This activity allows you to practice listening to and viewing information in your target language, while exploring the practical issues and challenges of everyday life in your Mobility Programme destination |
