Since the 1970s, scholars from many disciplines have tried to focus their work on achieving greater awareness of the theme of Communication.

Thanks to many studies on Language and Communication, it has been understood that there is no right or wrong way to interact in interpersonal communication: We just speak differently. 

Understanding how language works is the main objective of our course. Thanks to linguistics, we study different branches, mainly dealing with the history of grammar or the symbolic representation of language, but sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics give us a deep understanding of how people use their own language in their everyday life and how different cultures make people’s language different but authentic. 

When we grow up, we learn how to use language depending on the country we were born in, our ethnicity, religion, or our class backgrounds, even just being female or male gives us the awareness that there are different ways of speaking. 

 

This course is designed to give teachers an understanding of what cross-cultural communication means, how every single individual such as children, teens, adults, or even older people are involved in the greater world of communication and what is defined as a conversational style.

Analyzing everyday interactions and adapting to other communication styles could be the key to better understanding the problem in a conversation and avoiding all the negative consequences that different conversation styles can cause.

 

By the end of this course, teachers will:

• understand the importance of meaning in the communicative process and the role that context and so-called external variables play.

• know the meaningful connection between gender, power, and discrimination and the various factors that influence our language.

• know the importance of a cross-cultural approach to analyzing different conversational styles in order to better understand what is behind individuals' conversations.

• develop a greater awareness of communication and how conversational styles are influenced by gender as well as other cultural, social, and experiential factors. ​

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Target group

Any teachers, working in a public or private school or educational institutions

Like all of our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. 

 

Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, especially schools in the area. 

 

We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program is framed by JUMP, in a European dimension, with an international spirit, even at local level. According to the time of the year and the weather it is possible to change some sessions, excursions and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners (including schools involved in European projects). 

Program

Sunday: arrival of participants, welcome by the B&B, social dinner, free time, and relaxation.

Monday: 09:00 - 12:00 first briefing by organizers, presentation of the team, logistics of the local context, program overview, and changes, moving to the city center. Outdoor team building game “The Mission Impossible in Soverato by JUMP''. Getting to know the Cultural Heritage of Calabria region. 

12:00 - 13:00 Sharing expectations, experiences, and learning needs. Presenting briefly the schools and specific characteristics of the schools. Participants explain shortly their Erasmus K1 projects. The trainer presents the course's main topics, sessions, and goals. 

13:00 - 14:30 lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 lesson. Module 1: Why is linguistics important? and how can it improve our communication? 

Tuesday: 09:30 - 13:00 lesson. Module 2: All the factors that influence language and its use. Sharing personal experiences with communication styles. Analogies and differences in different conversational styles.

13:00 - 14:30 lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 lesson. Continuing Module 2

Wednesday: 09:30 - 13:00 lesson. Module 3: What does "Knowledge is Power" mean? How different conversational styles make or break relationships with others. (Create real dialogues between teachers and students, parents and children, men and women)

13:00 - 14:30 lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 lesson. Module 4: Why is it fundamental to know Conversational Signals and Devices? (Aspects of conversational style and how we show what we mean when we say or don't say something.

Thursday: 09:30 - 13:00 lesson. Module 5: Practical experience with intercultural communication in a local school. (trainee teachers practice with local students to make them aware of the importance of different conversational styles so they can improve and balance their everyday conversation.)

13:00 - 14:30 lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 lesson. Continuing Module 5

Friday: 09:30 - 13:00 lesson. Module 6: How to apply the week's experience to your own teaching style.

13:00 - 14:30 lunch break

14:30 - 17:30 Outdoor excursion to an old village on the coast of Calabria.

Saturday: 09:30 - 12:00 lesson. Closing the course: Evaluation and delivery of certificates, checking the Learning Mobility Agreements, and administrative receipts. On Saturday afternoon, free time or proposed ​Intercultural activities or an excursion "Discovering Calabrian old towns and traditions". Final social dinner among participants. 

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Training Modules: 

• Module 1: Why is linguistics important? and how can it improve our communication? 

• Module 2: All the factors that influence language and its use. Sharing personal experiences with communication styles. 

            Analogies and differences in different conversational styles.

• Module 3: What does "Knowledge is Power" mean? 

     How different conversational styles make or break relationships with others. (Create real dialogues between teachers and students, parents and children, men and women)

• Module 4: Why is it fundamental to know Conversational Signals and Devices? (Aspects of conversational style and how we show what we mean when we say or don't say something.

• Module 5: Practical experience with intercultural communication in a local school. (trainee teachers practice with local students to make them aware of the importance of different conversational styles so they can improve and balance their everyday conversation.)

• Module 6: How to apply the week's experience to your own teaching style.

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Certification and number of days

JUMP certifies or 36 hours for 6 days course (6*6) or more if needed adding extra hours per day. Or 30 hours for a 5 days course (6*5). 

The course can be also extended to a 2 weeks course with the options 10 days or 12 days course if asked and agreed, depending on the project of the sending organization. 

10 days are excluded the weekend (5+5), 12 days are from Monday to Saturday morning (6+6). 

At the end of the training, JUMP delivers a formal certificate of attendance and the team is at disposal to fill the Europass certification document according to the EU model template and other needed documents for reporting of the sending institution. 

 

Cost

The cost is fully covered by the Erasmus grant. Write to info@associazionejump.it to ask for information on costs and the services provided to plan your mobility project in Soverato with JUMP. 

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