Language Café
This European Commission funded project built on the concept of café culture to provide informal, social settings for people to get together, practise languages and share cultural interests. We developed a multilingual website which includes downloadable materials offering advice on setting up and joining a Language Cafe, publicity and sponsorship, and ideas for activities (www.languagecafe.eu).
Timescale:
October 2006 – September 2008
Key contact:
Paula Davis
Manager
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
pd2@soton.ac.uk
Website:
The Language Café
www.languagecafe.eu
Funded by:
Commission of the European Communities Socrates Lingua programme
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/lingua/index_en.html
Project partners:
- UK, Subject Centre for LLAS, University of Southampton (lead partner)
- Dalarna University College, Falun, Sweden
- Izmir University, Izmir, Turkey
- Libra Books Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
- Lessius Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium
- University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
- Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Public Service Language Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Public Service Language Centre, Riga, Latvia
Project aims:
The main aims of the project were to promote self-managed and non-traditional language learning that is replicable and sustainable through creating partnerships between hosts and/or coffee providers and language enthusiasts.
Outcomes:
The main outcomes of the project were at least one self-managed Language Café in each partner country, a set of resources to support the management, hosting and sustainability of the Cafés and a website to disseminate information and to create a network of Cafés across Europe.
Further resources available on our website:
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Join the Club
LLAS was a partner in this Lingua 1 project, which established a network of community based language learning clubs.
