Specific programme: Erasmus+ KA2

UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary

UPV/EHU PI: Durk Gorter

Project start: 15/02/2019

Project end: 14/02/2022

Brief description:  The Listiac Project develops and experiments a theoretically informed reflection tool aimed at making (future) teachers more linguistically sensitive in their beliefs, attitudes and actions.

All students in the EU need teachers who are linguistically sensitive and responsive. Despite the existing research and the amount of tools developed for individual teachers, it remains difficult to change monolingually framed policies and practices in schools. The Listiac project (Linguistically Sensitive Teaching in All Classrooms) intends to realise the desired change in teacher cognition, the education and professional development of teachers.

The envisaged impact is gained through a model for renewed initial teacher education curriculum for supportive and empowering multilingual pedagogies, a pedagogical reflection tool for supportive and empowering multilingual pedagogies within the whole school community and an open access research report and language sensitive teaching recommendations for policy makers, teacher trainers and pedagogical counsellors.