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This project has received the support from the Tempus/Phare Scheme of the European
Union for the years 1999 - 2001
This scheme is administered by the European
Training Foundation.
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Description
of the project
(to read the report on project activities click HERE)
Following the dramatic changes in society, Bulgarian higher education is undergoing fundamental transformation both in learning theory and practice. Modern foreign language teaching faces restructuring challenges in contents, methodology and organization. Instituting change in language education through curricula innovation has become an essentiality.
The overall concept underlying the LAC 2000 project is that of constructivism. Education is seen as a net-the learner is free to choose his route of learning and build a network of knowledge by connecting various areas of modern life in a unique individual way. On the other hand educational objectives must be achieved through a consensus of all stakeholders in the educational system - to define the inputs and outcomes in the mechanism of language teaching and learning, through dialogism and mediation.
It is assumed that academic goals that students achieve should determine the intellectual content of Modern Foreign Language teaching. A pragmatic approach should be used to focus on academic objectives and tasks. Language functions are to be considered a component of teaching/learning content alongside other components. The framework MFL curriculum should also embrace a task-based methodology providing for the nature and acquisition of the language behaviour of students.
The classical Research, Development and Diffusion model of project design will be used incorporating several separate phases. At the first applied research stage we should solve the "MFL for general purposes versus MFL for specific purposes conjecture" after study of orientation of theory and practice. The second phase should produce and test a prototype and the revised version will be published in a book form which is the primary project objective. At the final stage massive dissemination of MFL framework curricclum in Bulgarian Higher Education institutions.
Enhancement of ECTS implementation and emerging of a Nation-wide network of higher Education institutions with language programmes and courses are among the expected spin-offs of the project. An important diffusion factor will be the National Congress of BG Higher education institutions to be organized in the autumn of the year 2000.
Programme co-ordinator: Todor Shopov
e-mail address: todor@fcml.uni-sofia.bg
phone: 032-2615-239
fax and answering machine: 032-630955
group e-mail address for the TEMPUS agenda at the contractor's office: milkac@ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg
(mailed messages are received by both co-ordinator and administrator, highly recommended to use in urgent affairs!)
e-mail address: irinatch@hotmail.com
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