Seyhan Karar Fiyakalı / 29th October & 10th November

The European Day of Languages (EDL)

The European Day of Languages (EDL) was first celebrated in 2001 during the European Year of Languages.

The general aim is to draw attention to Europe's rich linguistic and cultural diversity, which has to be encouraged and maintained, but also to extend the range of languages that people learn throughout their lives in order to develop their plurilingual skills and reinforce intercultural understanding.

PLAN OF THE PROJECT

• SEPTEMBER	Presentation of the project and entegrating the students into the project and registering them on Twinspace,
  OCTOBER	Meeting with the project partners, presenting schools, forming student groups, presenting web2 tools. celebration of World Language Day
  NOVEMBER	The works of posters and logos of the project will be done. Competitions will be held for posters and logo of the project.
  DECEMBER	Deciding the activities and the stories. Using Voki application with our students. Preparing a pretest with Kahoot and written exams about the words we are going to teach in the stories we choose for the project. Using of Learning apps for creating new games  Singing and recording the New Year Song and turn into videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuBuk016QQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nwixJ_Q_8
  JANUARY-FEBRUARY	Organizing competitions with Kahoot and preparing questionnaires. Taking the videos of the dialogues about the story of each team. Adding photo collages by using Pizap and other applications with the costumes. Preparing mindmaps by using Popplet programme.
  MARCH	Evaluating the stories and skill based learning.
  APRIL	Having knowledge about vocabulary levels by using games.
  MAY	Organising a competition and live meetings among all the project schools.
  JUNE	Exhibition

Dance with the Words

        

    Vocabulary has an important role among the factors of verbal and written communication especially in reading and writing which are parts of basic language skills of understanding and speaking, and also the factors that affect listening and speaking sub language skills.Efficient use of understanding and narrative basic language skills depend on vocabulary.The weakness or richness of vocabulary influences both the ability to understand and the ability to narrate.By using web2 tools, we aimed to improve the vocabulary of our students and to improve their language proficiency with the usage of children's literature stories.