Different activities during the project meeting:

• French Education System;
• Teaching languages in France according to the European Language Framework;
• Exchanging ideas about language teaching and the ways of motivating students to study languages in different partner schools in Lithuania, Turkey, Italy and France;
• Observing lessons such as science lessons in English, Spanish lessons using Language Laboratory, a welcoming lesson for lower secondary school students, conducted by A math teacher in the Spanish Language in Jean Moulin Lyceum;
• Observing English lesson, German and English breakfast lesson for elementary school students in college Jules Ferry;
• Observing lessons in bilingual classes in Ecole Elémentaire d’application Paul Lapie and Elementary school Vauban of Cussac;
• Workshops: podcasting and teaching languages, experiences of bilingual teaching;
• Project working sessions with French project team and students;
• Meeting with French host families;
• Visiting Bordeaux and Basque country to discover cultural differences linked with languages;
• Meeting and welcoming event with the Mayor of Langon;

Impressions on the project meeting:

• Discovering ways how to motivate students to choose and learn languages;
• Discovering cultural and historical heritage of the French Language and traditions;
• The meeting was well-planned and organized;
• Workshops were efficient and informative;

Strengths of involving students in learning foreign languages IN Jean Moulin lyceum:

• innovative strategies and modern technologies applied in lessons;
• long-term pupil individual mobility programme;
• European classes (teaching sciences, civic education, philosophy, history in English);
• Students can choose and learn English, Spanish, German and Occitan (regional language), as this choice is not available in Turkey;
• Assessment and Diploma;
• Certification Diploma;
• Bilingual classes at very early age seem to stimulate children’s abilities to learn languages. Children are able to learn several languages at the same time as they develop multilinguistical skills;

Ideas for improving teaching of foreign languages:

• too few hours to teach languages and a big amount of students in classroom;
• lack of standard tests to define the level of students language knowledge;
• it is necessary to prepare language teaching programmes for different levels A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and mainstream students according to the level they have achieved;
• teaching various subjects in different languages should be available not only for students in European classes but for each student at school;
• bilingual classes should be integrated in primary schools;