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Info-brochure of the
SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC
Adult Educational Institue
Founded 1989
Armuli 5 - IS 108 - Reykjavik - Iceland
Phone: +354-588 1169
Fax:+354-557 1159
E-mail.: ice@icetrans.is
NEW TEACHING TECHNIQUES!
INTENSIVE COURSES
IN ICELANDIC
for foreigners and settlers
by the Inter-Lingual Learning Technique
ALL YEAR ROUND
Since spring and summer 1997 the school has run 4 Week Intensive Courses in Icelandic for Foreigners. Lessons in Level I are 4 weeks x
1 ½ hours a day, 5 workdays per week Mond-Frid at 18-19:30 or AM 10-11:30 and Level II is 7 weeks x 1 ½ hours hours 3 workdays per week; Mond, Wed,Frid at 20:00-21:30 or AM 10_11:30. and Level III –Grammar – Texts, Conversation is 10 weeks x 1 ½ hours 2 workdays per week; Tuesday and Thursday at 20:00-21:30 and Level IV is 10 weeks x 1 ½ hours on Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00-11:30. Level IV – Vocabulary/Conversational is 20 weeks on Saturdays 12-13:30.
Before the start of the “Intensive Icelandic Courses” there were had been held courses since 1990 that were 2 times a week for 8 weeks x 80 minutes but those courses started in 1990. The students participating in The Intensive Courses In Icelandic are beside settlers in Iceland, people working or studying for shorter or longer periods in Iceland and students as well as working people from many European and East European countries, USA, Canada, South America and Asia,
Although the main language of teaching is English there are many students from for example Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, but they need to know a little English to be able to make use of the courses. The school still has wordlists in those and more languages with Grammar Terms used in the course and this helps many of the students considerably
SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC
So actually a special school or department within the main school was founded in 1997. The school is run all year round for settlers and foreigners as the SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC.
4 , 7 , 10 and 20 Week Courses
in Icelandic for settlers and foreigners:
Payment of School Fees:
The School’s course fees are due 1 week in advance of the starting time of the course in question. Course fee for overseas students for each course is EUROS 260 (around 330 USD)
Payment of special extra fee for Confirmation of Registration needed to apply for Stay Permit/Visa
For Confirmation of Registration for overseas students outside of EC/Schengen Area
that need VISA/Stay Permit there is an extra
Registration fee of EUR 30 (around USD 40):
ICEBANK,
SWIFT Code: LSICISRE IBAN Code:
IS37 1195 0540 3666 1905 4724 89
Address: School of Icelandic, ID No 190547-2489,
Armuli 5, IS 108. Reykjavik, Iceland
INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS OF SCHOOL-FEES
Payments can be made:
by direct transfer to our bank account at:
School of Icelandic: ICEBANK,
SWIFT Code: LSICISRE IBAN Code:
IS37 1195 0540 3666
1905 4724 89
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS
What is the Location of the school? Armuli 5, IS 108, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2nd floor
What is the eligbility to the courses ? (Age, years of study necessary, etc): No particular eligibility or age, some students have finished High School and / or College education and others not.. A Western, Scandinavian, Germanic, English or "Indo-European” mother language can be more important and be more helpful. All study and knowledge of other languages than your mother languages helps still more. Most students are rather young though, at the age from 17-50.
Is course credit available? The courses have been credited by some American, Canadian and Scandinavian schools and Universities. All courses end with examinations. The school also used to run fully credited High School and College Courses in Icelandic for Icelanders as well as other languages and subjects.
Is housing provided? In the winter season The school tries to assist students in finding accommodation / housing in a guests house. Prices may be from around $ 650 per 4 weeks and 850 per 7 weeks.
What kind of housing is available? Rooms with access to kitchen and laundry room.
Do you offer any financial assistance to to students who have not already got an Icelandic ID Number and are legally registered living in Iceland.? No financial assistance is available.
What is the Deadline for Applications: 1 week before start of course.
Payment of fees and/or accomodation
For students from abroad has to be done 1 week in advance of course start.
Is this program offered annually? Around 9-10
Level I Intensive 4-week programs, around 4-5 Level II 7-week programs and 3-4 Level III 10- week evening programs per year and 2-3 level IV and level V Saturdays/Sunday programs per year..
Other Comments: Courses are held in rather small groups of students: Minimum number: 6 students
Maximum Number: 16 students.
Total number of hours per 4, 7 and 10 week courses: Total number of teaching hours per course: 30-31,5 hours.
What can Other Costs be: Food: around US $ 25-30 per day.
How to Apply ? send e-mail to iceschool@icetrans.is, together with a filled in Registration Form or apply by phone or come to the office: For Confirmation of Registration for overseas students that need VISA/Stay Permit there is an extra Registration fee of EUR 30.
(Around USD 40)
Address: Armuli 5, IS 108. Reykjavik, Iceland
Through E-mail: ice@icetrans.is
Web Page: www.icetrans.is/ice
Or Phone: +354-588 1169
Fax: +354-557 1159
Mobile Phone: +354-898 1175
A Modern International Perspective
in Learning & Teaching Techniques
in rythm with the times of today
and the times of tomorrow
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The learning technique of the Adult Educational Institute and The SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC; The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique, takes notice of the multinational and international reality and considers and teaches a language as a living and changing tool to meet the needs of each time and place in history and not as a dead or holy thing or a sacred thing which may neither be touched nor changed and should be suppressed in the philosophical chains of nationalism and separatism. In this way the learning technique emphasizes what languages and people have in common – which is overwhelming - instead of emphasizing the differences – which, when it comes down to it, are actually rather minimal.
It does not matter much how fast you run, if you are running into the wrong direction. SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC
Description of Programs & other Course Related Info
Title of the Programs: Icelandic for Settlers and Foreigners by the Inter-Lingual Learning Technique.
*Level I : Beginners: Basic vocabulary of daily language, sound or phonetic systems and letters, basic grammar. Basic and frequent nouns, adjectives and regular verbs and adverbs are trained. A thorough basic use of the Inter-Lingual Learning Technique is introduced and its used is trained and
a work method in learning Icelandic is built up in order to make the students more independent and more capable of making use of the course and make the students partly able to study and learn themselves and build up a good work tool and a good effective base is built up to prepare for further studies.
*Level II: Forthgoing :Keeps on building up and widening vocabulary and treating more conversational vocabulary and adds some more grammar structures like more on irregular verbs and prepositions.
Level III: Intermediary :Keeps on widening vocabulary and developing the making of sentences and training more advanced grammar structures and more irregular verbs are added and the use of prepositions.
Level IV: Advanced : Reading Comprehension and Conversational
More and wider vocabulary is built up by working with more text material and some more advanced uses of conversational and written language are practiced and students bring up their own problems and experiences with the language.
Level V: Advanced : Conversational and Reading Comprehension
Some more advanced uses of conversational and written language are practiced and students bring up their own problems and experiences with the language. More weight on spoken language
Basic language of teaching is English,
but teacher speaks also and has good knowledge in Scandinavian languages and German. Teacher also has knowledge of basic grammar and some basic vocabulary of Latin/Roman languages. Some comparative methods are used and similarities between the languages shown and explained.
Location: Armuli 5, IS 108, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2nd floor left
Apply to (Administrative Office): send e-mail to icel@icetrans.is, together with a filled in registration form or apply by phone or come to the office.
Address: Armuli 5, IS 108. Reykjavik, Iceland
Through E-mail: ice@icetrans.is
or Phone: +354-588 1169
Fax: +354-557 1159
Mobile Phone: +354-898 1175
Is this program offered annually? 9-10 beginner programs are offered per year..
Maximum Number per Class: Absolute maximum is 18 students.
Minimum Number per Class: 5 students.
Principle & Manager: Mr Orlygur Antonsson
Telephone: +354-588 1169
Fax: +354-557 1159
E-mail: ice@icetrans.is
Web page:htttp://www.icetrans.is/ice
The Advantages of Inter Lingual Learning Technique
The “Inter-Lingual learning Technique” or the ´´Mother Language Technique”, is at its best for students from the European and Anglo-Saxon language are as whose mother languages are related to Icelandic.
Better Study Techniques
According to Mr Antonsson the Educational Technique or Study Technique developed at the school has been considerably more successful and useful for most students than traditional methods. The Teaching and Learning Techniques of the school are based upon more emphasis on a deeper functional, realistic and holistic understanding of the subject. The sound systems and phonetics of languages are taught in a way that is simple to understand and most languages taught directly from the point of view of the students mother language, as it is usually closely related to the languages the student is learning. You could say that the learning technique makes use of the connection between the student´s previous knowledge of his/hers own language and the language to be studied. The pedagogics of teaching and studying therefore become more ´´holistic´´, understandable and manageable for the student as well as the teacher. Much more weight is put on seeing the picture as a whole. For instance, Mr. Antonsson, the principle says, ´´dyslexic students have done much better in languages with the school´s Inter-Lingual Learning Technique´´.
“The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique”
Sociologists, psychologists, teaching and educational experts and linguists in the western world have proved, with numerous researches, that settlers learn the language of their new home country much better and sooner if they have a good knowledge of their original language and get good tutoring in it, even if the teaching must take place in their new home country. In cases where this has not been put in work there are some very bad cases where children of settlers haven´t been able to learn to talk or read with basic skills in any language, neither its original nor the language of the new country. This is no coincidence, because a language is not only a flow of words to be learned by heart, but a tool to think, influence thought and knowledge and to dress it into words.
Are the Icelanders settlers?
But what about an Icelandic who for instance wants to learn English? Is he then some sort of a settler? “Yes exactly”, says Mr Antonsson, “that´s right”. The answer is definitely yes. At least if an Icelander wants to learn a language from another country or people, then he is in the same position as the “´settler”´ and of course the same educational methods apply to him as to everyone else. On this ground the study technique of the Adult Educational Institute and the SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC, “The Inter-Lingual Learning Technique”´ or the “The Mother Language Technique”, is based and founded and that is why the languages to be learned are so much more connected to the
student´s mother language and the students knowledge of his/her mother language it is sharpened, to strengthen the student´s knowledge and understanding of the new language. In this way the basis of the studies can be what the student already knows, his own mother language.”
So always when possible and the teacher has knowledge of the student´s mother language,
as much use as possible is made of this connection and similarities as well as unsimilarities or differences. A sort of a comparative method. this is more true of course for the study of Icelandic than for example for the study of Business English.
National or International ?
Actually two sides of the same thing!
“The other side of the school´s study and learning techniques is based on the fact,” says
Orlygur Antonsson, “ that in most cases
languages closely connected to Icelandic are being studied or the other way round students speaking these languages are studying Icelandic. And a lot of those languages are, when it comes down to it, almost versions of Icelandic and of each other, as is the case with much of the European languages, that a few thousand years ago were one and the same language, the Indo-European Language, which because of population movements was divided into three main parts: the Latin, the German and the Slavic”. And it is considered that even less than a hundred thousand years ago there was only one language in the world!
A “Neo-European” Language?
An increasing interaction of peoples and societies has long ago turned this trend and the languages are now rapidly developing in the direction towards each other. A continuously growing economical, political, social and personal interaction and standardisation is going on at all levels of society and the languages need and must follow this development, even though languages tend to change and develop more slowly than other areas of society and though adjustment of languages towards each other for different reasons have been mostly set aside in this work.
More brain, less strain - in learning languages ! SCHOOL OF ICELANDIC
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