NELLIP – Finnish report

Omnia, Kati Valtonen

THE ELL IN FINLAND

The Finnish National Board of Education in charge of the awards

Awards are based on the European Commission’s priorities, but during the last years also on the national criteria

Applications in every spring, ceremony in November

A language teacher and a language learner of the year also awarded

The Label Campaigns

Publication of bulletins Use of e-mailing lists and newsletters Contacts to schools and training institutions Organisation of the ceremony Press releases, FNBE’s website Invitations to seminars and training sessions European database Initiatives’ own activity (application => dissemination)

Priorities

European Commission’s priorities:Language learning in the communityLanguage skills as a preparation for work

National priority in 2011: Diversification of languages on offer

Awarded initiatives in Finland in 2011: – Kielitivoli, City of Hämeenlinna (awarded)– Kielireppu, City of Turku (honor)– The school of Hakalehto in Raasepori (honor)

Awarding the ELL in Finland

28 awarded language projects 1999-2011 School section: 21 Adult section: 3 Vocational education and training: 2 University: 1

Themes

Intercultural awarenessDiversification of languages on offerCLIL

Minority languagesMulticultural comprehension

Languages

Swedish: 17 initiatives English: 16 initiatives German: 13 initiatives French: 12 initiatives

Finnish as a second language: 5 initiatives

Impact and exploitation of the ELL

To obtain national ( and European) recognition for the project

Dissemination To share good practices and project results Project’s impact on minority target groups / languages To enhance multicultural approaches To promote the project results to new areas / training

procedures To enlarge the networks on a national / international

level

Best practices

The Language Circus, 2011 Teaching Chinese, 2010 Ready Study Go! 2008 Place of work as a learning environment for Finnish,

2009

The needs of the target group addressed in an innovative and succesful way

Diversity of languages on offer Quality of results: innovation, originality and sustainability Transferability of the results

Recommendations

A clear idea of the need: a needs analysis Target groups / local strategies Direction’s understanding and support Project team: motivation, time, enthousiasm, coordination Concrete resourses: time and money Good network Dissemination and implementation plan to be made in the

beginning of the project

For the FNBE: A permanent and up-to-date internet site for the dissemination purposes

THANK YOU!

Project team in Omnia: Kati Valtonen (author, coordination)Minnie Rasila (research, contacts)