Don’t Give Up

• Thematic framework: Education
• Geographical outreach: Regional
• Types of project: Capacity-building
  
  
• Beneficiary country/countries: All Europe, later Global
  
  
• Main responsible:
  Dagmar Pelikan
  Coordinator - Language School PELIKAN
  Brno,
  Czech Republic

Summary of the activities
Motivating adult language learners to complete courses! This is a project funded by the European Community and carried out by experienced language experts from across Europe.

Too many adult language learners drop-out of language courses, the Dont Give Up project offers language schools, course designers and students 101 ways to learn a foreign language successfully.

The project will investigate why adults drop-out and build up a knowledge base of ways to prevent drop-outs.

The project will look at every aspect of courses. For example, reasons for taking courses, the structure and teaching of courses, problems students encounter etc. Solutions can be as simple as the colour of the classroom walls through to the overall structure of a language course.

The project will produce a book of best practices to motivate students to complete their courses.

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Main partners
- Language School PELIKAN, Czech Republic
- Kindersite Project, UK
- CNAI, Spain
- University of Humanities and Economics (WSHE), Poland
- International House Tallinn, Estonia