‘Tell Me How!’ project promotes and disseminates the European Language Portfolio for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ELPBVI).
The ELPBVI is an electronic model of the European Language Portfolio created for the blind visually impaired language learners by a consortium of European partners in 2008-2009.
The European Language Portfolio for the Blind and Visually Impaired has been accredited by the ELP Validation Committee at the Council of Europe (Accreditation No 108.2010).
The ELPBVI is a multilingual language portfolio: the user can choose between English, German, Bulgarian and Greek languages. In the ‘Tell Me How!’ project in addition to these four languages, we will make the ELPBVI available also in Italian.
The project encourages blind and visually impaired people to use the ELPBVI. We want to explain and to practically show how they can use this tool to achieve better results in learning languages. For this purpose we organise a series of special training seminars in the countries of the project partners - Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Malta and Italy.
Apart from that, we carry out hands-on workshops for teachers, as the project seeks to support both teachers of inclusive classes and those working individually with visually impaired students, to introduce the European Language Portfolio into their teaching practice. With the help of the ELPBVI they can better understand the learning needs of their visually impaired student and achieve greater success.
Using the European Language Portfolio the teacher not only teaches what is foreseen in the curriculum but also encourages the students to set their personal learning goals, to monitor their success through regularly self-assessment and, by doing so, to take responsibility for the results of their learning.
It is for this reason that the project partners organise also a number of pilot sessions, during which both teachers and visually impaired students have the opportunity to learn how to use various parts and applications of the electronic ELPBVI and understand the benefits of using it.