The European project “LSP Teacher Education Online Course for Professional Development” (LSP-TEOC.Pro) run by a strategic partnership consortium consisting of ten member institutions. Nine of these institutions are directly involved as teachers of languages for specific purposes (LSP) and the tenth is the British research organization Arcola Research Llp. The objective of this project is to provide students and teachers of Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) with a multilingual online course which will allow them to acquire the competences needed for a successful implementation of teaching languages in a specific context. This course will be taught online (also known as distance learning, e-learning or web-based learning, among others), as online teaching has recently become one of the main characteristics of the 21st century educational system (Tsai & Machado, 2002).
Find more info on participation options in this document: LSP-TEOC.ProBooklet.pdf
Participant Nergiz Kern reports her experiences with the previous run of the CATAPULT MOOC
Thanks to a LinkedIn notification I found out about Nergiz’ complimentary comments about the Catapult 2020 MOOC. Find the full story in her blogpost.
A corpus-based quiz for the Christmas day🎄
Wishing all community members a happy Christmas and hopefully also a good and healthy 2021. 
And to wet the appetites of those of you who have not attended one of our annual MOOC editions yet find this corpus-based quiz offered by the Corpus for Schools project at Lancaster University.
Which of the 🎄expressions above is more frequent in current spoken British English?
[The quiz and the answers are based on the findings from the British National Corpus2014]
Business English lesson plan ‘The 4 Ps of Marketing’, via Nick Peachey https://payhip.com/b/FKeW
Via Nick Peachey’s blog:
If you are planning ready to teach soon today/4y this week then perhaps we can save you some time with some of our lesson plans and digital materials for the remote and physical classroom.
We have a new business English lesson plan ‘The 4 Ps of Marketing’: https://payhip.com/b/FKeW
This plan is great for intermediate students and can help them to learn more and share their knowledge about key elements of marketing and types of promotion.
You can download this half price over the next few days by using this coupon code:4PS
We also have a great collection of short Image-based Lessons which are ideal for encouraging speaking and interaction in the remote classroom if you need to stimulate your students’ imagination and get them speaking more.
You can download this half price over the next few days by using this coupon code:4PS
We also have a great collection of short Image-based Lessons which are ideal for encouraging speaking and interaction in the remote classroom if you need to stimulate your students’ imagination and get them speaking more.
Download from: https://payhip.com/b/LrCG
Download from: https://payhip.com/b/LrCG
If you are looking for creative ideas to stimulate your students then check out Hacking Creativity. This book has been shortlisted for the British Council’s prestigious Innovations award for Innovation in Teacher Resources. Download from: https://payhip.com/b/HDeb
This week you can download it for half price using this coupon code: ELTON2020
If you prefer to learn through watching rather than reading, there is a 45-minute video of Nik Peachey presenting some of the ideas from the book at: https://payhip.com/b/YAfX
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 partners were called upon to help intensify use of social media to promote the upcoming MOOC and membership of its Community of Practice ‘LinguaCoP’, registrations, particularly for the MOOC, have increased dramatically.
With both platforms available since the beginning of September the 44 registrations since the start of the campaign (28 September) are in sharp contrast with the average of some 7 registrations in the previous two weeks.
In addition to posts on communities on Facebook and LinkedIn contributions sent to a number of relevant related projects and organisations, such as the EU Platform EPALE, Mercator European Research Centre and SCILT were also published through their mailinglists, newsletters or website news sections.
Our Twitter activities were also noticed and retweeted by the EU Erasmus+ organisation.
Great to see so many positive reactions, also now and then leading to renewed contact with colleagues known from previous professional communities and activities.
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 realisation of the beta version of the project’s Teachers’ Community of Practice (CoP) ‘LinguaCoP’. This platform supports LSP teachers to find & share resources and tips and with its matching tool ‘LinguaClick’ facilitates professionals to offer their services, also internationally. 
View this short presentation video to see what this online CoP has in store for you and become a member for free.
Furthermore we gladly announce the start of the second (revised) edition of the free online course (MOOC) based on the LSP competence framework on October 10, 2020. Watch this video to get a sneak peek at what course participants can expect. Those interested can already register here:
https://www.thecn.com/course/1169867/page
For more details about these and other project developments see the online version of the latest Newsletter.
Project website: http://catapult-project.eu Twitter: @ProjectCatapult
Ton Koenraad on behalf of Catapult partner TELLConsult