Alternative Ways to learn a language
Welcome to this toolkit for language instructors, which consists of experiential and creative informal educating tools, brought together in six Stepping Stones.
The exercises are primarily intended to enhance and stimulate pleasure in learning and to increase self-confidence and communication. This creates ideal conditions for further and deeper learning.
Let yourself be inspired by the exercises, the ready-made
elaborated themes as well as the substantiating manual.
Keep an eye on our training sessions if you want to learn more!
Training 2024
For language teachers, trainers and volunteers
Saturday 16 November 2024 (10u30 – 16u30)
location: Amsterdam (exact location will be provided soon)
Choose your Stepping Stone
We believe that the 6 Stepping Stones are the ideal mix to provide a lesson that takes into account the group process and dynamics, the participants’ different learning styles and especially non-traditional learning tools.
Combining exercises from these six parts provides a basis for a lesson or a series of lessons, but the stones can perfectly be used separately and interchangeably in a language program.
How does it work?
This alternative and innovative toolkit enables you, as instructor, to create tailor-made lessons for adults who have difficulty in learning a language using formal learning tools. However, the informal tools in this toolkit are also great fun and suitable for everyone else who wants to learn a language.
You can combine exercises from each Stepping Stone to create a tailor-made lesson, course or series of lessons according to your own insight and experience.
Feel free to adapt exercises or to combine these with your own exercises.
Besides the central part of the toolkit, the Stepping Stones, we have also by way of example developed a series of lessons for 6 themes.
What is ‘Alternative’ in this toolkit:
- This toolkit is based on 8 neuroscientific principles.
- These 8 neuroscientific principles are the base for the creation of 6 Stepping Stones.
- Every Stepping Stone consists of many experiential and creative exercises, in which working with the mind, the body the heart and the senses are strongly connected.
- By using and combining exercises from each Stepping Stone, all different learning styles are covered.
- No book is used and the tables and chairs are often put aside.
Our international partners
This toolkit has been developed by Arbeit und Leben NRW (Germany), Elan Interculturel (France), GO! onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Belgium), Storytelling Centre (The Netherlands) and De Talentenschool (The Netherlands).
The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
"The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflect the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein."
