Lingua

Lingua is designed to: encourage and support linguistic diversity throughout the European Union; contribute to an improvement in the quality of language teaching and learning; promote access to lifelong language learning opportunities appropriate to each individual’s needs.

The action is divided into two parts, corresponding to different sub-objectives.

Lingua 1 is intended to: 

• raise citizens’ awareness of the Union’s multilingual wealth, encourage people to learn languages throughout their lifetime, and improve access to foreign language learning resources across Europe;
• develop and disseminate innovative techniques and good practices in language teaching.

Lingua 2 aims to:

• ensure that a sufficiently wide range of language learning tools is available to language learners.

Further information on the Action in English is available on the websites of the European Commission and the Socrates, Leonardo and Youth Technical Assistance Office:

http://www3.socleoyouth.be/static/en/lingua/document.htm

Examples of Lingua projects

• "Lingua Community" contains news about current Lingua projects and links to a variety of useful resources.
• The Lingua Compendia include details about all Lingua projects funded since 2000.

Eurobarometer survey:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/lang/eurobarometer54_en.html

Languages in Europe
These pages bring together some of the data that exist at a European level concerning the languages that are spoken in Europe, and the language skills of people in different EU countries.

Why learn Languages?
These pages explain some of the benefits and ways of learning foreign languages in today's world. Browse the Lingua Catalogue of courses and methods. Languages are for everybody!

Teaching foreign languages
Find out about new ways of learning and teaching languages. Find links to other useful language sites.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages_en.html

Action Plan "Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity"

The Action Plan Promoting language learning and linguistic diversity  sets out three broad areas in which action should be taken: extending the benefits of life-long language learning to all citizens, improving language teaching, and creating a more language-friendly environment. It proposes a series of actions to be taken at European level in 2004 – 2006 with the aim of supporting actions taken by local, regional and national authorities.Taken together, actions proposed, and those taken by Member States, can secure a major step change in promoting language learning and linguistic diversity.

Lingua Document Library

http://www3.socleoyouth.be/static/en/lingua/document.htm

Lingua pre-proposals 20003 – Partner Search Forms

| Equal Chances to European I.doc

| German following English fo.doc

| L'Europe Ensemble (FR) L2.doc

| Linguistic and Cultural Int.doc

| Mobile Technology for Langu.doc

| To Learn from Life and Movi.doc