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NELLIP – Finnish report
Omnia, Kati Valtonen
THE ELL IN FINLAND
The Finnish National Board of Education in charge of the awards
Awards are based on the European Commission’s priorities, but during the last years also on the national criteria
Applications in every spring, ceremony in November
A language teacher and a language learner of the year also awarded
The Label Campaigns
Publication of bulletins Use of e-mailing lists and newsletters Contacts to schools and training institutions Organisation of the ceremony Press releases, FNBE’s website Invitations to seminars and training sessions European database Initiatives’ own activity (application => dissemination)
Priorities
European Commission’s priorities:
Language learning in the community
Language skills as a preparation for work National priority in 2011:
Diversification of languages on offer
Awarded initiatives in Finland in 2011: – Kielitivoli, City of Hämeenlinna (awarded)– Kielireppu, City of Turku (honor)– The school of Hakalehto in Raasepori (honor)
Awarding the ELL in Finland
28 awarded language projects 1999-2011 School section: 21 Adult section: 3 Vocational education and training: 2 University: 1
Themes
Intercultural awareness
Diversification of languages on offer
CLIL
Minority languages
Multicultural comprehension
Languages
Swedish: 17 initiatives English: 16 initiatives German: 13 initiatives French: 12 initiatives
Finnish as a second language: 5 initiatives
Impact and exploitation of the ELL
To obtain national ( and European) recognition for the project
Dissemination To share good practices and project results Project’s impact on minority target groups / languages To enhance multicultural approaches To promote the project results to new areas / training
procedures To enlarge the networks on a national / international
level
Best practices
The Language Circus, 2011 Teaching Chinese, 2010 Ready Study Go! 2008 Place of work as a learning environment for Finnish,
2009
The needs of the target group addressed in an innovative and succesful way
Diversity of languages on offer Quality of results: innovation, originality and sustainability Transferability of the results
Recommendations
A clear idea of the need: a needs analysis Target groups / local strategies Direction’s understanding and support Project team: motivation, time, enthousiasm, coordination Concrete resourses: time and money Good network Dissemination and implementation plan to be made in the
beginning of the project
For the FNBE:
A permanent and up-to-date internet site for the dissemination purposes
THANK YOU!
Project team in Omnia:
Kati Valtonen (author, coordination)
Minnie Rasila (research, contacts)