Opening the door to language learning

bringing language learning to the wider community

This website contains guidance and recommendations based on the experiences of a three-year project funded by the European Community Socrates Programme, which sought to develop and test strategies for increasing access to language learning.

The Opening the Door to Language Learning (OdLL) Project aimed to encourage organisations delivering language learning (universities, colleges, schools, publishers, businesses) to develop initiatives whereby their materials and expertise could be made available to a wider and different set of learners. The OdLL Project consisted of three phases, the first two being devoted to trialling and evaluating open learning models in seven European countries (Belgium, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). The third phase consisted of evaluating these models and compiling a guide to good practice in promoting language learning, of which the handbook (available in printed and downloadable versions) is a key element. Additional resources created for and by the OdLL Project are available on this website.

Resources

• read all about our partners’ projects
• UK activities phase 1 summary report
• UK activities phase 2 summary report
• reActivate pack
• information on the project powerpoint slide show
• project report
• the summary of initial research for phase 1

Weblinks

• Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
  www.llas.ac.uk
• Lessius Hogeschool
  www.lessius-ho.be
• Vilnius University
  www.vu.lt
• Cambridge University Press
  www.cambridge.org
• Sydnärkes Utbildningsförbund
  www.suf-edu.org
• Swedish Agency for flexible learning
  www.cfl.se
• Mt Educación y Formación
  www.mteducacionyformacion.com
• National University of Ireland
  www.nuim.ie
• European Commission Socrates Lingua programme
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/
  programmes/socrates/lingua/index_en.html
• reActivate your Language Learning pages
  www.opendoor2languages.eu/reactivate
• University of Southampton Modern Languages
  www.lang.soton.ac.uk
• Comenius South East
  www.lang.soton.ac.uk/comenius

Authors

• Alison Dickens, OdLL Project Coordinator and Paula Davis, OdLL Project Manager,
  Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  www.llas.ac.uk
• Jonė Grigaliūnienė, Associate Professor, Department of English Philology, Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
  http://w3.vu.lt
• Mariann György, ELT Representative, Cambridge University Press and Ildikó Berke, English Teacher, Szent Isvtán Gimnázium, Budapest, Hungary
  www.cambridge.org/elt
• Birgitta Henriksson, Language Teacher, Alléskolan, Sydnärkes Utbildningsförbund, Hallsberg and Märet Wik-Bretz, Teacher, Swedish Agency of Flexible Learning, Härnösand, Sweden
  www.suf-edu.org
  www.cfl.se
• Inge Lanslots, Senior Lecturer in Italian and Francis Note, Project Assistant, Department of Translators and Interpreters, Lessius Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium
  www.lessius-ho.be
• Sonia Mora, Manager of Languages Department, Pilar Sampietro and María Sanz, Language Technicians, Mt Educación y Formación, Zaragoza, Spain
  www.mteducacionyformacion.com
• Éamann Ó hÉigeartaigh, Technician, Language Centre and Anna Ní Ghallachair, Director, Language Centre, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  www.nuim.ie/language

Contact us

Alison Dickens,
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies,
University of Southampton,
Highfield,
Southampton, SO17 1BF
UK
E-mail: a.m.dickens@soton.ac.uk

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