Innovation and interdisciplinarity in the development of good practices in language teaching and research

• María José Naranjo ^[1] ; Mercedes Rico ^[1] ; Remedios Hernández-Linares ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Extremadura

     Universidad de Extremadura

     Badajoz, España

     
• Localización: Proceedings of the International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.5th - 6th May 2016 / coord. por Saul Neves de Jesus, Patrícia Pinto, 2016, ISBN 978-989-8472-82-3, págs. 18-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Quality and innovation policies in language learning and the promotion of lifelong programs have been majorissues of our Spanish and European educational commission for years. To accomplish this aspiration, the EuropeanCommission sponsored The European Language Label (ELL), an award which encouraging local, regional andnational quality initiatives in the field of language teaching, should be consistent with the current educational trends.In the light of this context, our work, based on the NELLIP Project (Network of European Language LabelledInitiatives Project, is two-fold: first to identify a set of guidelines to design good practices in language learning andresearch and second, examine some of the basic notions and assumptions that underpin the guidelines and to suggesta more interdisciplinary approach.The study provides a broad array of guidelines for engaging teachers into effective language experiences, innovativestrategies which can be applied wherever they provide effective learning and encourage the process of lifelong learningthrough teaching projects based on ICT, CLIL, cultural immersion, etc. It also contributes to the sharing of crosscurricular models, encouraging teachers to encompass multiple areas simultaneously to disclose the subskills thatconstitute interdisciplinary thinking to unravel the typical student, learning environment and conditions.