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III. How should one read this CD-ROM?

This CD-ROM is the fruit of two years’ work by the project team and the pupils of 23 classes in 22 European countries accompanied by their teachers on the Gulliver forum.

On it you will find:

  • some thoughts on the psychological and pedagogic aspect of the teaching/learning of intercultural skills, a brief survey of the present situation and an account of the reasons why the acquisition of intercultural skills is vital in the present day;
    Chapter: “What point have we reached in the teaching/learning of intercultural skills?”
    Link: “Intercultural skills today
  • arguments in favour of the value of an Internet forum in language class work and the advantages of such work in the teaching/learning of intercultural skills:
    Chapter: “Why invest in class work on an Internet forum?”
    Link: “Why use an internet forum?
  • practical observations on the organisation and technical aspect of forum work:
    Chapter: “How to organise an Internet forum”
    Link: “How to organise a forum
  • conclusions and some methodological, pedagogic and linguistic advice derived from the Gulliver forum work for anyone wishing to attempt such an experiment:
    Chapter: “How to work on an intercultural forum”
    Link: “Methodology
    In this chapter you will find the following subtitles:
    • intercultural skills or linguistic skills
    • linguistic or non-linguistic objectives
    • textbook or forum
    • subject choice criteria
    • two or more partners
    • one or more languages
    • very young or older participants
    • very elementary or advanced language level
    • correction or self-correction of contributions
    • assessment or marking.
  • a description of the actual experience of a Czech teacher and member of the project team who worked on the Gulliver forum for two years with his class:
    Chapter and link: “Actual example
  • In the “Info” chapter and link you will find:
    • some actual documents created during work on the Gulliver forum:
      • Info on project 1 – Coordinating team, project team
      • Info on project 2 – Central workshop participants
      • Info on project 3 – Procedure for selecting topics
        List of Gulliver forum topics
      • Info on project 4 – Questionnaire for teachers
        Questionnaire for participants
      • Info on project 5 – Practical sheets for class work
      • Info on project 6 – Data on Gulliver forum contributions
    • the presentations of 23 classes which took part in the project, as prepared by the pupils themselves and posted on the Gulliver forum at the start of the project:
      • Info on project 7 – Presentations
    • the selection of actual Gulliver forum contributions:
      • Info on project 8 – Contributions

The project team wishes to stress that this selection has not been made in order to present the “best” contributions. The selection criteria were as follows:

  • We were keen to quote at least one contribution from each class participating in the project and at least one contribution illustrating each of the 15 topics, as well as each of the four forum languages (German, French, English and Spanish)
  • We wanted to illustrate the pupils’ differences in age and levels of language proficiency
  • We have included one very long contribution and one very short one as examples
  • We have chosen contributions which are interesting for their intercultural content.

We should also like to mention that the contributions appear in the CD-ROM without the slightest change, as posted by classes on the Gulliver forum.

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