The Erasmus+ eRead project teams from Estonia, Slovenia, Latvia and Ukraine are on their way to finalizing the BA module “Teaching reading digitally”.

They met online at the start of the year, on January 9, 2024 to refine the module and prepare it for piloting in spring. The discussion touched upon the content elaboration, topics for self-study and the list of literature. The participants highlighted that the organization of the topics should be well-structured and coherent to reflect the modern vision of digital reading methodology.

The module is aimed at equipping the future teachers of languages with the latest and most effective tools and methods of teaching reading via digital technologies. The developers chose to use experiential learning (based on guided discovery), first stimulating the evocation of the students’ experience in learning and teaching reading, then helping them to reflect and work out the principles for themselves through carefully structured concept questions and examples. Based on the communicative approach, it combines the best in current reading methodology with innovative new features designed to make learning and teaching reading more effective and engaging.

The module will be further adapted to the specificity of the partners’ national languages and offered to BA students of 5 HEIs participating in the project.

At the end of the meeting the Latvian team initiated meeting online in March to outline the future e-course “Reading skills: B1” which is another focus of the project.