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    Students from Turkey have a message for you about online meetings! 

                                

 STUDENTS' ONLINE MEETINGS 

• Students from Niepubliczna Szkoła Podstawowa eNTe w Wrocławiu had an online meeting with students from Nail Reşit Secondary School, Turkey. They introduced themselves and had great fun playing 'guess what?' language game.

  
  

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  Students from Escola Elvira Cuyàs, Spain had an online meeting with their friends in Turkey, Nail Reşit Secondary School. We were very excited and had great fun! Students introduced themselves and played a communicative game together. Thank you all! 
  

E-JOURNALS 

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Christmas Wishes

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS 

From Poland, students wish a happy and peaceful Christmas to our partners and their new pen-pals. 

• Commenting on Survey Results

  
  
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• Students answered the questions on the survey. Then, we had an online meeting with the teachers of partner schools to discuss the results of the survey. 

• After that, we shared our opinions about the results and precautions or activities planned to overcome revealed difficulties via the results !

  

  Sevda DURMAZ - Tokat International Project İmam Hatip Secondary School

  I applied the questionnaire to my students in the project. I concluded that speaking and listening to someone in a different language context looked like the essential problem. On the base of teaching and learning English in Turkey, we are teaching grammar mostly and unfortunately we do not have enough input exposed to students. Therefore, we will do our best and keep practicing in our lesson and in this platform obviously. I am pllanning to make my students feel brave and confident as communicating with someone English.

  Maria Istituto Comprensivo di Lurate Caccivio Vittorio Alfieri Secondary School

  I spoke with my students about the issues of the quiestionnaire and they were enthusiastic about the concept of learning a foreign language. The big problem we have in learning a foreign language is that there are not a lot of opportunities to speak it, we spend a lot of time in grammar and written exercises than in oral practice, it depends on time, schedule and so on. What I can do is to encourage students to not be afraid to learn and take advantage of any opportunities they have

  Marie-Ange Marmillon, collège les coudriers, France

  This survey shows what we sort of already know and face everyday when teaching. Speaking in a foreign language is a real challenge especially when our language doesn't have the same roots as the foreign language. On top of that, we have to take inot account the age of the students as when they are teenagers they are more self aware and find it more difficult to express themselves in front of others.
  My students were on holidays but those who got my message about the survey did it willingly and were proud to be part of the survey!

  Joana-Vilnius Simonas Konarskis Gymnasium

  After answering the survey questions, we had a short discussion with my students what are the biggest challenges they face when learning a foreign language. Most of them said that it is speaking as they are afraid to make mistakes and not to be understood, also they say that when they need to say something the words seem to vanish from their memory. All of this I think is a problem we as teachers face, since there is not enough time to do the speaking and the teaching materials usually focus on grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening. I truly hope that while cooperating with students from different countries, our students will become more confident and will understand that communication is not that hard thus very important.

  Esra Kablan-Nail Reşit Secondary School

  According to the survey results, students hesitate to speak English because they either think they look funny or feel afraid of making mistakes. To overcome this, students need to learn in a stress free classroom atmosphere. They need to be assured that it is allright to make mistakes. It’s a natural outcome of learning. We’ve also made sure with the students that nobody is to be laughed at because of the way she/he speaks or pronouns the words. Respect is the key word for this to be achieved. Finally, students will be provided with opportunites where they can practise English like e-twinning projects. Drama is to be included more in learning process so that it enables real life situations for genuine conversation.

  Silvia Boladeres, Josep Gras Primary School (Sant Llorenç Savall, Barcelona, Spain)

  I talked with my students about the results and they all agree that the most difficult part for them is speaking in English, they feel ashamed, hesitate, don't know how to start, afraid of making mistakes... And I don't have too much time of English lessons and I have a lot of contents. Now I'm starting to put into practice CLIL and it's very interesting because English is the language, so speaking and listening become very important. And now, my students are creating posters with sentences and questions that they could use so it may be helpful having them in sight. Another idea: students have to listen to a story as many times as they need until they feel comfortable to record themselves retelling it, maybe this activity helps to improve their pronunciation and to be less afraid of making mistakes.

  

  Escola Elvira Cuyàs

Survey on Difficulties in Langauge Learning

 

Survey Questions

• This is your space to add questions for Survey on Difficulties in Langauge Learning 

  Sevda DURMAZ - Tokat International Project İmam Hatip High School

  Why do we hesitate speaking a foreign language?

  Collège les coudriers, Villers-Bocage (80), France

  How to cope with heterogeneity in class?

  Silvia BOLADERES, Josep Gras Primary school (Barcelona, Spain)

  Why are we shy about speaking another language?

  Esra Kablan-Nail Reşit Secondary School

  Why are the pupils so afraid to make mistakes?

  Maria Romeo Istituto Comprensivo Vittorio Alfieri di Lurate Caccivio Como

  Why do pupils think they appear fool when they try to speak a foreign language?

  Isidora- NSP eNTe school, Wroclaw, Poland

  How can we learn and improve the accent of a foreign language?

  Isidora- NSP eNTe school, Wroclaw, Poland

  What can help to learn and memorising a foreign language?

  Melih K.- Nail Reşit Secondary School

  How can I pronounce the words correct?

  Elif Beyza Bandırma-Nail Reşit Secondary School

  Whick phrases can i use while constructing sentences?

  Ömer B

  How should i put your sentences in the right order

  Sima-Nail Reşit Secondary school

  Why do we find it diffıcult to form sentences?

  Ediz Akadalı-Nail Reşit Secondary school

  How can l speak more fluently ?

Survey Link 

• Hello everyone,
  As you know we prepared our questions to understand difficulties in learning a new language. Please make our students fill in this survey to get better results in terms of pupils. Thanks in advance. You can click on the link below : 

   

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScB1_TLAMfGq8kf7aakvXXAC7SoPxnXB8E1roZSLqyS3Qzp4g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Difficulties in Foeign Language Learning

We are trying to find out reasons of problems we may have during learning a new language. Can you fill in the form to see different points of view?

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I hesitate speaking a foreign language. *

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The pupils are so afraid of making mistakes. *

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We feel shy about speaking another language. *

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Pupils think they look funny when they try to speak a foreign language. *

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I know how we can learn and improve the accent of a foreign language. *

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I know the ways of learning and memorising a foreign language. *

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I can pronounce the words in a foreign language correctly. *

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I find it diffıcult to form sentences in a new language. *

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I can speak fluently in a new language. *

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I know the phrases that I can use while constructing sentences in a new langauge. *

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