Project name: “Developing Reading Skills With and Through Digital Technologies”

Project number: 2022-1-EE01-KA220-HED-000089331

Project acronym: eRead

Priority: Stimulating innovative learning and teaching practices

Action type: KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education

Project duration: 01.12.2022 – 30.11.2025

Project lump sum: € 400,000

Target groups: 

current and future language teachers, international students, residents of the partner countries with limited skills in the national language, and people from all over the world who would like to improve their skills in Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, or Ukrainian.

Grant holder: the University Tartu, Estonia

Coordinator and General Manager:  Oleksandra Golovko, PhD in Linguistics (the University Tartu, Estonia)

Project objectives:

1) to develop challenging learning materials and empower current and future foreign/second language teachers with knowledge, experience, and tools to develop the reading skills of their students digitally,

2) to design a digital open-source course that will help develop the reading skills of international students and other people who want to improve their Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, or Ukrainian.

Project goals:

• to share our experience and study other available innovative EU experiences.

• to develop a BA module “Teaching Reading Digitally” that will be integrated into the course “Methods of Teaching Languages”.

• to develop a professional development course for in-service language teachers “Teaching Reading Digitally”.

• to develop 4 interactive online courses “Reading Skills: B1” for 4 different languages (Estonian, Slovene, Latvian, Ukrainian).

Project results:

1) a BA module “Teaching Reading Digitally” integrated into the course “Methods of Teaching Languages”;

2) a professional development course “Teaching Reading Digitally” offered to in-service language teachers;

3) four language courses “Reading Skills: B1” integrated into the learning process of international students during the language year or offered to anyone willing to master this language.