This theme of Transitions and Contexts focuses on your journey both into and during your Higher Education experience in a digital world.  The theme addresses topics such as intercultural communication, social media, target language practice, and preparation for your mobility programme.

The Digilanguages team have developed a range of resources aimed at enabling learners to explore the area of digital literacies skills for language acquisition.  There is also a number of activities that you can use independently.

The main objectives of this section are to:

• understand the use of digital literacies in the context of language acquisition.
• show how topics such as ‘the mobility programme’ can build your digital literacy skills and support your language learning through aural, oral, reading and writing practices
• each activity can support language learners of six different languages (EFL, French, German, Irish, Italian and Spanish).

This theme provides activities to help you transition to language learning environments, while acquiring digital literacies, which have become essential graduate attributes for life-long learning.

By engaging with the activities in this section, you can prepare more effectively for transitions from secondary to postsecondary, mobility placements, and workplace settings.

Sustainability is central to the ethos of the Digilanguages project.  If you would like to become involved by offering feedback on any of the activities, or indeed by proposing additional activities you can contact any member of the team.

 

To learn more about transitioning to language learning environments.

The table below gives you a list of topics under the theme of Transitions and Contexts. To learn more about a specific category, and to get an overview of activities available in your target language, click on the appropriate link.

 

Category	SubCategory	Brief Description/Learning outcomes
Year One to Mobility Programme	Social Media	Evaluation of the effective use of social media in your target language.
	Target Language	Building confidence in target language use and contexts.
	ICC Intro	Introduction to the important concept and realities of intercultural communicative competence and cultural sensitivities.
Mobility Programme	Pre-mobility Programme	Planning and preparing for your Mobility Programme
	During your Mobility Programme	Exploiting the full potential of your limited time abroad.
	ICC Advanced	Deeper exploration of and exposure to the important concept and realities of intercultural communicative competence and cultural sensitivities.