Building Engaging Language Learning (BELL)

About

This summer school explores active and practical approaches to contemporary language teaching and learning, equipping the participants with strategies to create more inclusive, engaging and effective learning environments. The participants will examine how the plurilingual approach and mediation practices can support communication, collaboration and learners’ social-emotional development while valuing their full linguistic repertoires.
Through hands-on workshops, the participants will experience and design motivating classroom practices, including escape room challenges, literature and performance-based activities and collaborative learning tasks that promote meaningful language use. The course also focuses on optimising classroom time through flipped learning and developing personalised lesson plans that address diverse learner needs and encourage learner autonomy.
In addition, the participants will explore the pedagogical value of translation and cross-linguistic strategies to strengthen language awareness and communicative competence. They will gain practical tools and adaptable lesson ideas to reimagine language classrooms as interactive, learner-centered spaces that foster both linguistic and intercultural development.
Why Join This Summer School?
Refresh your teaching with innovative, practical approaches.
This summer school offers language educators a unique opportunity to explore active language teaching and learning methods that make language learning more inclusive, engaging and effective.
Experience language learning.
Participants take part in interactive workshops, gamified challenges, performance activities and collaborative tasks, gaining practical ideas by experiencing them firsthand.
Take home ready-to-use classroom strategies.
Each session focuses on practical application, enabling the participants to leave with adaptable lesson ideas, materials and techniques ready for immediate classroom use or improve your language learning practices.
Connect with an international community of language enthusiasts.
The programme encourages collaboration and exchange of ideas among language teachers and enthusiasts from diverse educational contexts, fostering long-term professional connections.
Enjoy the beauty of Lithuanian summer!
Together with other multilingual and multicultural language enthusiasts, spend two weeks in the second-largest city in Lithuania and enjoy fun and engaging cultural activities: Lithuanian crafts, food (learn how to make a traditional Lithuanian dish yourself), walks in nature, open-air concerts and much more!

Target group

Philology students (BA, MA and PhD), students in education sciences with the focus on languages (BA, MA and PhD) and anyone interested in language learning and teaching

Course aim

To enhance active language learning and teaching practices

Fee info

The fee includes participation in the course and the cultural program. Accommodation and meals are not included.