The project Modules promoting plurilingualism in foreign language teaching (MEMO) Examples of language and culture-sensitive classes for beginners in French focuses on the use and promotion of plurilingualism and plurilingual competences in the French classroom.

The aim of the project is to create incentives among learners and teachers for innovative foreign language learning that encourages plurilingualism, meets current societal and social requirements and corresponds to the state of research in foreign language didactics.

For this purpose, the MEMO project is developing cross-contextual and textbook-independent modules promoting plurilingualism (MEMOs) for French language teaching. The school language(s), heritage languages and previously learned foreign languages are systematically integrated.

This global approach to language learning intends to promote language awareness, acceptance and openness to languages and linguistic diversity, and to (further) develop learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural competences and language learning strategies.

In addition, the project benefits methodologically as well as strategically from the linguistic and cultural diversity, the didactic and institutional profiles and traditions of project partners. It contributes to strengthening awareness of a common European education and research.

The MEMOs and the instructions in the accompanying teacher’s handbook provide French teachers with a time-efficient, differentiating and plurilingual approach to teaching French. The developed products (MEMOs, advanced training modules, and reflection tools) facilitate the introduction to plurilingual teaching, sensitize teachers to their own plurilingualism, to the linguistic and cultural diversity in their classrooms, and contribute to the development of teachers’ plurilingual teaching skills.