THOUESNY, S., JAGER, S., BRADLEY, L. & MEIMA, E. J.,
SpeakApps 2 is a project with support of the Lifelong Learning
Programme, Accompanying Measures. It follows up on the work and results
reached during the KA2 project “SpeakApps: Oral production and interaction in
a foreign language through ICT tools”. The overarching aim of SpeakApps 2 is
to further enhance Europeans’ language learning skills through both self-directed
learning and purposeful, teacher-designed materials that can leverage an evergrowing
body of Open Educational Resources (OER). SpeakApps 2 targets not
only HE educators and teacher trainers, but also those in VET and Secondary
Education, and aims to widen the pool of resources for building language teaching
skills via scalable trans-European collaborations and innovation using ICT and
mobile technologies. SpeakApps 2 now takes further steps to diffuse the results
in new countries and to synchronize efforts in European language teaching, in
particular using OER. To achieve this, SpeakApps 2 has the objectives of a)
integrating five new languages and including new education sectors, and b)
developing a scalable digital framework able to bring in more languages, while
spreading SpeakApps 2’s methodologies and mobile solutions through a series of
workshops, targeting the interests of open source communities and other projects
for the sharing of resources and future innovations.