Second Language Education Centre

The Estonian Language Training Project

Another aspect of the project involved the professional development of Estonian language teachers in Estonia.

During the summers of 1995 and 1996, Viviane Edwards and Nancy Pynch Worthylake traveled to Estonia to conduct workshops entitled "Effective Language Teaching: Principles and Practice." These sessions allowed participants to examine elements of the National Core French Study and multidimensional curriculum development in an effort to create unit plans for the teaching of Estonian as a second language.

Summer Institute '95
Front left to right:
Nancy Pynch Worthylake (workshop leader), Ene Peterson, Lembit Tropp, Ingrid Krall, Viviane Edwards (project director).

Back left to right: Karsh Nappa (Estonian project manager), Tiit Paeva, Menke Saar (interpreter), Anne Janese, Jaanika Korsten, Anneli Sato, Diane Maisla, Jana Tondi.


In the summer of 1997, those involved in the previous two summer institutes, conducted their own in-service training for Estonian language school teachers in Estonia. Topics in this session included assessment, process writing, teaching grammar in the communicative/experiential context and using video in the second language classroom.

Workshop leaders: (from left)
Elle Sormus and Ene Peterson,
Summer Institute '97.

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