One Project, Three Perspectives

1. One Project, Three Perspectives Chinese, French and Portuguese within the KiVAKO project Gabriela Barco, Jinhua Cheng, David Erent Aalto University, Finland

2. Aalto University

3. Learning Challenge Aalto • Working life skills • Real life challenges • Interdisciplinarity

4. What is this about? KiVAKO in a nutshell What we do in our respective languages The bad stuff The good stuff What next?

5. KiVAKO? Kielivarannon Vahvistaminen Korkeakouluissa • Languages less and less studied in secondary schools • English as a lingua franca not enough • Strategically important for the economical future of Finland • Backed (and funded) by the government

6. KiVAKO in a nutshell • 10 universities and 17 universities of applied sciences • About 80 teachers, 27 experts and 10 managers​ • Budget: 4,7 million euros​ • 14 teams, among which: • German (21), Russian (12), Spanish (11), French (11)​; • Italian (3), Chinese (2), Portuguese (3), Japanese (2), Estonian (1), Korean (1), Sign Language (2);​ • Tandem-learning (9) (for Vietnamese, Arabic and Finnish/Swedish for for foreigners​); • Educational Technology and Digital Practices (6)​

7. Chinese Study Path

8. Portuguese Study Path

9. French Study Path

10. Example of Basic Chinese, 5-credit unit

12. Example of Portuguese 1-credit course chapter Portuguese 1, Part 1

13. Example of French 1-credit course chapter Mon premier stage (First Internship) : B1

14. Video Samples • Jinhua’s Character Courses • Gabriela’s final task video sample • David’s pronunciation video

15. Challenges

16. Opportunities • Reaching more students • More efficient teaching time management (in the long run!) • Flexibility • Open online material (Creative Commons) • Frequent updates compared to manuals • Learning from one another

17. Next steps • Piloting in the end of September • Rotation model • Moodle-based platform (DigiCampus) launched in April • More courses developed in 2019-2020

18. 谢谢! Merci ! Obrigada! www.kivako.fi