Abstract:

A shift towards evidence-based approaches to learning materials design, development and evaluation can be observed nowadays. In this article, we would like to present data that have been gathered from the implementation of an international Erasmus+ KA203 Strategic Partnership for Higher Education project entitled “Teacher Culture Pluri (TEACUP)” (2019-1-ES01-KA203-064412), whose goal is to promote high-quality, evidence-based and sustainable solutions for the integration of the plurilingual/pluricultural approach into international foreign language teacher education. The project leader is the University of Córdoba in Spain, and the project partners are: University of Lower Silesia, Poland; Texas Women’s University, the USA; University of Oldenburg, Germany; University of Bremen, Germany; and Tanárok Európai Egyesülete (TEE), Hungary. TEACUP is a team of international university researchers and practitioners, who are teacher educators, applied linguists, linguists, FL teachers and intercultural trainers working on the design of educational modules that facilitate a sustainable and systematic transfer of academic knowledge and competences associated with the plurilingual/pluricultural approach to FL teaching to a specific target group, namely pre- and in- service FL teachers. The project’s aim is to deliver six educational modules in international collaboration that highlight synergies in the teaching of various languages and cultures, thereby integrating the notions of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism into international training programs for foreign language teachers, who would work in different learning environments, both synchronous and asynchronous.