About
We reimagined language learning as a journey, designed with you, lived in the real world. Because new words are learnt and real fluency grows with the help of real-life conversations.
How did it start?
In 2022, Magda Vanmontfort, a language expert for the Support Centre of Education (Province of Limburg – Belgium) read about language learning in the wild in Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden).
She contacted some key figures and they talked about common challenges and needs concerning second languae education.
We all agreed to work together in a new project to promote and expand L2W.
A new cooperation partnership was formed and our project gradually began to take shape.
Our Mission
Language learning in the wild (LLW) is about using the resources available in the second language life world of the newcomers for learning the local language. When newcomers have arrived to their new society, the local language plays an immediate role in their everyday lives. As a minimum, newcomers are overhearers of and eavesdroppers to the spoken words around them and they encounter all kind of written material, from advertisements in the streets to package texts on their favorite granola. How can they harness these experiences for learning the new language? This website will report about current and previous projects about LLW, give access to relevant publications and document new pedagogical practices that put the learner into the center of the learning process.Research about LLW builds on interaction research, usage based language acquisition processes and experiential learning models. It practices co-design with learners and their contacts to further the development of new ideas about learning practices, learning materials and learning environments.
Who are the people involved?
Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in adult education
Duration: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2026
Partners:
Support Centre of Education, Province of Limburg (Belgium)
University of Umea, Institute of Design (Sweden)
University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
Who are the people involved?
Guðlaug Stella Brynjólfsdóttir
University of Iceland
Magda Vanmontfort
Psychologist, MA Cultural Sciences, Taalarena Coach.
Søren Wind Eskildsen
University of Southern Denmark
Brendon Clark
Umeå Institute of Design
Johannes Wagner
University of Southern Denmark
About
We reimagined language learning as a journey, designed with you, lived in the real world. Because new words are learnt and real fluency grows with the help of real-life conversations.
How did it start?
In 2022, Magda Vanmontfort, a language expert for the Support Centre of Education (Province of Limburg – Belgium) read about language learning in the wild in Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden).
She contacted some key figures and they talked about common challenges and needs concerning second languae education.
We all agreed to work together in a new project to promote and expand L2W.
A new cooperation partnership was formed and our project gradually began to take shape.
Our Mission
Language learning in the wild (LLW) is about using the resources available in the second language life world of the newcomers for learning the local language. When newcomers have arrived to their new society, the local language plays an immediate role in their everyday lives. As a minimum, newcomers are overhearers of and eavesdroppers to the spoken words around them and they encounter all kind of written material, from advertisements in the streets to package texts on their favorite granola. How can they harness these experiences for learning the new language? This website will report about current and previous projects about LLW, give access to relevant publications and document new pedagogical practices that put the learner into the center of the learning process.Research about LLW builds on interaction research, usage based language acquisition processes and experiential learning models. It practices co-design with learners and their contacts to further the development of new ideas about learning practices, learning materials and learning environments.
Who are the people involved?
Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in adult education
Duration: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2026
Partners:
Support Centre of Education, Province of Limburg (Belgium)
University of Umea, Institute of Design (Sweden)
University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
Who are the people involved?
Guðlaug Stella Brynjólfsdóttir
University of Iceland
Magda Vanmontfort
Psychologist, MA Cultural Sciences, Taalarena Coach.
Søren Wind Eskildsen
University of Southern Denmark
Brendon Clark
Umeå Institute of Design
Johannes Wagner
University of Southern Denmark
About
We reimagined language learning as a journey, designed with you, lived in the real world. Because new words are learnt and real fluency grows with the help of real-life conversations.
How did it start?
In 2022, Magda Vanmontfort, a language expert for the Support Centre of Education (Province of Limburg – Belgium) read about language learning in the wild in Scandinavia (Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden).
She contacted some key figures and they talked about common challenges and needs concerning second languae education.
We all agreed to work together in a new project to promote and expand L2W.
A new cooperation partnership was formed and our project gradually began to take shape.
Our Mission
Language learning in the wild (LLW) is about using the resources available in the second language life world of the newcomers for learning the local language. When newcomers have arrived to their new society, the local language plays an immediate role in their everyday lives. As a minimum, newcomers are overhearers of and eavesdroppers to the spoken words around them and they encounter all kind of written material, from advertisements in the streets to package texts on their favorite granola. How can they harness these experiences for learning the new language? This website will report about current and previous projects about LLW, give access to relevant publications and document new pedagogical practices that put the learner into the center of the learning process.Research about LLW builds on interaction research, usage based language acquisition processes and experiential learning models. It practices co-design with learners and their contacts to further the development of new ideas about learning practices, learning materials and learning environments.
Who are the people involved?
Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership in adult education
Duration: 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2026
Partners:
Support Centre of Education, Province of Limburg (Belgium)
University of Umea, Institute of Design (Sweden)
University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
Who are the people involved?
Brendon Clark
Umeå Institute of Design
Johannes Wagner
University of Southern Denmark
Guðlaug Stella Brynjólfsdóttir
University of Iceland
Magda Vanmontfort
Psychologist, MA Cultural Sciences, Taalarena Coach.
Søren Wind Eskildsen
University of Southern Denmark