The “GreekTurkish crossroad of music” is a virtual e-class project between the Model Experimental School of Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece (ΠΠΣΠΘ) and Ağrı öğretmenler High School , Turkey. The theme of the project is ‘ Music and words that connect our culture’. The classes which participated at this project were: B2 junior high school, ΠΠΣΠΘ , level of English B1/B2 and 10D class students Agri Ogretmenler high school, level of English A2/B1. The english teachers who participated at this project were Maria Politou and Elif Çevik.
This project is being carried out in the context of a research and educational programme conducted by the Research Centre of English Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment (RCEL) of the University of Athens –a programme directly connected with the new national foreign languages curriculum (presently being piloted in 188 primary and secondary schools throughout Greece).
The main aim of this project is to involve teachers of English, French and German in helping their students communicate in the language they are learning in their class so as to carry out a project with a view to:
1. raising their intercultural awareness
2. practice the target language within an authentic communicative context
“GreekTurkish crossroad of music"
Description
Presentation of history of music, musical instruments, folk music, traditional dances, art music, famous Greek and Turkish artists, modern music.
The theoretical framework of the “GreekTurkish crossroad of music’’ is based on a sociocultural perspective. A sociocultural perspective ‘assumes that human cognition is formed through engagement in social activities, and that it is the social relationships and the culturally constructed materials , signs, and symbols, referred to as semiotic artifacts, that mediate those relationships that create uniquely human forms of higher-level of thinking. Consequently, cognitive development is an interactive process, mediated by culture, context, language, and social interaction” (Johnson, 2009:1).
Learning goals
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The classes met each other through skype, they shared information, exchanged ideas and designed the activities of their project. They danced folk dances, sang traditional songs and in general enjoyed themselves working on this virtual project.