Training needs for LSP teachers : a Survey Infographic

  This infographic provides a quick summary of the CATAPULT survey to LSP teachers than ran from September to November 2018 in 7 different languages ( DE,...

A situational survey into the skills and training needs of LSP teachers

The CATAPULT Situational Survey aimed at offering a better understanding of language teachers’ qualifications and skills (and lack thereof), especially those teaching...

Latest publicity campaign leads to registrations increase for the upcoming CATAPULT MOOC

Registrations for the project's online professional development course on LSP teaching appear to have been boosted by the recently started publicity campaign. Since...

EU Project ‘CATAPULT’ to launch MOOC and Community of Practice platform for LSP teachers

The latest developments in the EU Project 'CATAPULT' - Computer-Assisted Training And Platforms to Upskill Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Teachers include the...

Common Competence Framework: general teaching competences

If you look at Section 1 of the CCF that was put together as a result of the CATAPULT project, you will see that there are four areas of expertise: general language...

Introducing Common Competence Framework

Part of the Catapult project was the creation of the Common Competence Framework (CCF) - a model of knowledge and skills necessary in an LSP teacher. The framework, to...