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GREEK LANGUAGE WEBTIPS

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The "Odysseas Language Project" is a new online interactive programme designed to teach the Greek language on the internet.

Led by the Greek-Canadian Andre Gerolymatos, chairman of Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University in Canada, "Odysseas" is designed to emulate how an actual personal tutor would instruct a student.

The programme keeps on expanding as the number of students in the United States, Canada and China who are taking up this challenge, is increasing.

Through partnerships with some of the most prestigious universities worldwide such as Harvard, Yale and University of Beijing in China, more and more students are lining up to learn Greek. The programme offers four different proficiency levels ranging from beginner to advanced and it is funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

ROUTES IN TEACHING MODERN GREEK

"Routes in Teaching Modern Greek" is a distance-training course that was developed within the project Developing Levels of Certificate of Attainment in Greek (Εξετάσεις για την πιστοποίηση ελληνομάθειας). The course is addressed to expatriates and foreigners who are involved in teaching Greek as a foreign language abroad. Their aim is to keep teachers abreast of developments in teaching foreign languages, and in particular Greek, to help them acquire the knowledge and teaching skills required for language teaching and to train them in the methodology of teaching Greek as a foreign language at all levels and to all age-groups.

The first training cycle lasted 8 months (August 2007-April 2008). The environment in which the course operates is user-friendly, easily accessible, and offers options that have been designed to address the trainees’ needs with efficiency and immediacy.

A NEW PORTAL FOR GREEK LANGUAGE EDUCATION

The Centre for the Greek Language has designed a new portal (www.greek-language.gr) to support the study and teaching of the Greek language. It is addressed to researchers, university students, teachers, pupils, and everyone interested in the Greek language, within and outside of Greece. It attempts to cover the Greek language both diachronically and synchronically (Ancient Greek, Medieval Greek, Modern Greek).

The portal aims at constituting a useful, reliable, and effective environment for the support and dissemination of the Greek language in the digital age, for the teaching of Greek as a native and second/foreign language, as well as for the productive use of Information and Communication Technologies in the teaching of the Greek language.

The Centre for the Greek Language has been recently (September 2008) awarded the European Language Label for its innovative e-learning program: http://elearning.greek-language.gr

The Centre for the Greek Language holds annual exams for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Greek (Εξετάσεις για την πιστοποίηση ελληνομάθειας).

Greek Language Support

Center for the Greek Language

www.greeklanguage.gr

www.komvos.edu.gr

www.komvos.edu.gr/fryktories/

Lingu@net Europa on-line resource centre

www.linguanet-europa.org

Learn Greek Online

Filoglossia: Learning Greek as a foreign language:

www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/

Hellas Alive