Building Engaging Language Learning (BELL)

Description

This summer school explores active and practical approaches to contemporary language teaching and learning, equipping the participants with strategies to create more inclusive, engaging and effective learning environments. The participants will examine how the plurilingual approach and mediation practices can support communication, collaboration and learners’ social-emotional development while valuing their full linguistic repertoires. Through hands-on workshops, the participants will experience and design motivating classroom practices, including escape room challenges, literature and performance-based activities and collaborative learning tasks that promote meaningful language use. The course also focuses on optimising classroom time through flipped learning and developing personalised lesson plans that address diverse learner needs and encourage learner autonomy. In addition, the participants will explore the pedagogical value of translation and cross-linguistic strategies to strengthen language awareness and communicative competence. They will gain practical tools and adaptable lesson ideas to reimagine language classrooms as interactive, learner-centered spaces that foster both linguistic and intercultural development.