Eurochance

Intermediate and advanced vocational English language courses for the blind and visually impaired.

Content recordings, user testing and development. http://eurochance.brailcom.org/


Eurochance - Home Page "The aim of the project is to widen the range of employment opportunities for the blind and visually impaired, improve their qualifications and skills and make the professional community aware of their knowledge and competences. The primary results of the project are English and German language courses with a vocational focus suitable also for self-learning. For each language there are two levels: Intermediate and Advanced."
Eurochance - Intermediate Contents Page There are fifteen modules in the intermediate level, with each one based on the training and employment opportunities for a particular sector. In the intermediate level, these included: office administration, banking and finance, agriculture, social services, catering, sports, etc.
Eurochance - Advanced Contents Page The ten modules of the advanced level include: language for telecommunications and sound engineers, telemarketing and call centres, physiotherapy and nursing, programming and networks, etc.
Eurochance - Unit Contents Each module offers about an hour of material divided into a range of learning activities such as: listening and general comprehension, vocabulary, grammar practice, consolidation.
Eurochance - Listening comprehension activity Since the course was designed for the blind, the look of the site was far less important than the accessibility of the activities to visually impaired users, and screen readers such as Jaws and Windows Eyes.
Eurochance - Vocabulary activity Each module has fifty target vocabulary items which are introduced and practiced, and then presented in the context of an authentic text or listening.
Eurochance - Grammar activities The grammar section of each module focusses on a particular problem area at that level, which is then practiced in a number of transformation and substitution activities.
Eurochance Project Meeting - Gijon, Spain The Eurochance course was the product of European Union Leonardo da Vinci project, with team members from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Spain, Norway, and UK. This photo was taken at the third partners' meeting, held in Gijon, Spain.
Eurochance - Project Meeting in Bratislava The fourth and final meeting of the Eurochance project partners was held in February 2006 in Bratislava, the Czech Republic.