Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 62

Cooking workshop followed by a presentation of the result: a delicious cheesecake.
Extracurricular activities and European Erasmus+ projects are a rich source of
language input and valuable motivation boosters. Our students have the chance to
communicate and be creative outside the English classroom in real-life situations and this
can encourage them to understand the importance of good communicative skills in a
foreign language.
I will refer here to the project that is in progress in our school: Integrative Pathways
for Students with Social, Educational and Motivational Needs. The project spans from 1 st
September 2016 to 31 st August 2018. The coordinating school is from Ottaviano, Italy. The
partner schools come from Romania, Malta, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy and Lithuania. The
relevance of the project has become obvious when our students visited Bulgaria on a
project meeting. The students started communicating on the project Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/15 03197246387177/) and they also created their own
group on Facebook. I was deeply impressed when Paul, one of the students involved in
the project, told me “You know, I would have stayed there forever.” He loves the new
friends he made during the meeting and they send one another hundreds of messages
daily. English has become the language of friendship for them. Wonderful gain!
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