1. EMA – 4 – MOODLE an international project promoting language learning and intercultural communication Nikiforova Natalia Chair of foreign and Russian languages SUT Saint-Petersburg

2. Erasmus Mundus Action 4 Moodle Six partners: The Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (Russia), institutions from Brest and Lile (France), Leipzig (Germany), Novosibirsk (Russia) and Zilina (Slovakia).

3.  Duration: December, 2008 – May, 2011  Aim: to facilitate international students integration into their new study environment  Results: 4 on-line language courses (Russian, French, German and Slovak) and intercultural documents  Target groups: students, language teachers, other personnel

4. Meeting demands Students international mobility  Students international mobility  Distance learning  Equal opportunities  Intercultural understanding

5. Creating courses  Shooting original films  Making the lesson template  Creating intercultural documents and exercises

6. Films  created in each partner country.  show the situations which foreign students have to go through in order to succeed their integration into a new educational system. situations  serve as the basis of the language learning activities.  are provided with subtitles.

7. Template Template  is based on previous experience with Moodle in language courses.  helps to create a multi-media interactive language course on line.  can be changed if other users want to do so.  Template. Template

8. Intercultural documents  an on-line attempt to get students to think about cultural differences.  offer intercultural dilemmas.  have no right or wrong answers only different points of view.  serve for quick adaptation.

9. Post-project plans  The language courses will be available to foreign students, teachers and staff.  Some partner institutions will have tutors for their courses (Russia, France).  The Moodle language lesson template will be available to create other language courses.

10. This project has been funded with the support of European Commission. EMA-4-Moodle-Server: http://recherche.telecom- bretagne.eu/ema4moodle/http://recherche.telecom- bretagne.eu/ema4moodle/ Thank you for your attention!