PluriMobil meets DYLAN – practical resources for supporting intercultural and plurilingual learning in vocational student mobility

Abstract

Pedagogical research literature shows consistently that a focussed and structured support of the phases before, during and after the mobility experience turns out to be a crucial factor in the learning success of all types of study abroad activities. PluriMobil is a concept developed at the European Centre of Modern Languages (ECML) of the Council of Europe. It yields practical and ready to use pedagogical resources, so called lesson plans and learning scenarios, geared towards fostering sustainable plurilingual and intercultural learning in mobility. The PluriMobil resources are available for five educational levels: teacher training, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary general school and upper secondary vocational school. The latter, the focus of this contribution, is partially grounded in, and partly in response to, a part of the research findings in the DYLAN project. The aim of this chapter is to show how these findings could be put into practice.