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The
Ad-hoc.com project’s overall objectives are:
- To
encourage and support linguistic diversity throughout the Union,
by motivating and aiding individuals to learn the language of
the country of their destination through the development of an innovative
user-friendly language learning tool, which serves the specific
needs of travellers (tourists, students, professionals) through
WAP and GPRS technologies.
- To
support the "life-long learning", the guiding principle
for the second phase of SOCRATES programme, by giving evidence
that language learning could be an entertaining activity that could
happen any time in any place.
- To
improve and validate broadband access to ICT learning at home or
in geographically remote regions, with seamless access to educational
content. The new applications (WAP and GPRS) allow for fast
transfer of data (text, sound, picture and video) through the mobile
device (phone, palmtop) of the user.
- To
develop a pedagogical method of autonomous self-directing language
learning that allows for a self-directed acquisition of language
skills and meets users individual communication needs regardless
of the place and time.
- To
test and evaluate the application of the ad-hoc tool in various
real environments to better understand and exploit the cross
cultural effects in learning.
The
project’s specific aims are:
- To
define the language content for the ad-hoc tool in the languages
Greek, Italian, English and German
- To
present authentic communication and real life situations in
the cultural context and to ensure its ad-hoc availability on travel
occasions.
- To
offer different, basic language levels, based on the survival
level
- To
chose thematic fields for the acquisition of language skills serving
requirements of specific situations and specific purposes (business
travel, social contact, travelling of young people etc)
- To
chose for acquisition of only partial competencies, e.g. oral
comprehension and expression.
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