Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment
Title | Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Ann Melin |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1603293957 |
At a time when environmental humanities and sustainability studies are creating new opportunities for curricular innovation, this volume examines factors key to successful implementation of cross-curricular initiatives in language programs. Contributors discuss theoretical issues pertinent to combining sustainability studies with foreign languages, describe curricular models transferable to a range of instructional contexts, and introduce program structures supportive of teaching cultures and languages across the curriculum. Exploring the intersection of ecocritical theory, second language acquisition research, and disciplinary fields, these essays demonstrate ways in which progressive language departments are being reconceived as relevant and viable programs of cross-disciplinary studies. They provide an introduction to teaching sustainability and environmental humanities topics in language, literature, and culture courses as well as a wide range of resources for teachers and diverse stakeholders in areas related to foreign language education.
Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning
Title | Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning PDF eBook |
Author | María J. de la Fuente |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2021-11-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000480178 |
This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning. Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability can be integrated in FL curricula. Chapters draw on case studies from colleges throughout the US and consider theoretical and practical concerns relating to models of sustainability-based teaching and learning. Chapters present examples of project-, problem-, and task-based approaches, as well as field work, debate, and reflective pedagogies to enhance students’ awareness and engagement with sustainable development issues as they acquire a foreign language. Insights and recommendations apply across languages and highlight the potential contribution of FL learning to promote sustainability literacy amongst learners. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in Modern Foreign Languages, sustainability education, training, and leadership more broadly.
Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances
Title | Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances PDF eBook |
Author | Zou, Bin |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2013-01-31 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1466628227 |
Educational technologies continue to advance the ways in which we teach and learn. As these technologies continue to improve our communication with one another, computer-assisted foreign language learning has provided a more efficient way of communication between different languages. Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: Technological Advances highlights new research and an original framework that brings together foreign language teaching, experiments and testing practices that utilize the most recent and widely used e-learning resources. This comprehensive collection of research will offer linguistic scholars, language teachers, students, and policymakers a better understanding of the importance and influence of e-learning in second language acquisition.
Foreign Language Education in Japan
Title | Foreign Language Education in Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Sachiko Horiguchi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2015-12-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9463003258 |
Language education is a highly contested arena within any nation and one that arouses an array of sentiments and identity conflicts. What languages, or what varieties of a language, are to be taught and learned, and how? By whom, for whom, for what purposes and in what contexts? Such questions concern not only policy makers but also teachers, parents, students, as well as businesspeople, politicians, and other social actors. For Japan, a nation state with ideologies of national identity strongly tied to language, these issues have long been of particular concern. This volume presents the cacophony of voices in the field of language education in contemporary Japan, with its focus on English language education. It explores the complex and intricate relationships between the “local” and the “global,” and more specifically the links between the levels of policy, educational institutions, classrooms, and the individual. In the much-contested field of foreign language teaching in Japan, this book takes the reader directly to the places that really matter. With the help of expert guides in the fields of anthropology, sociology and linguistics, we are invited to join a vital discussion about the potentially revolutionary implications of the Japanese government’s policy of teaching Japanese citizens to not only passively engage with written English texts but to actually use English as a means of global communication.” – Robert Aspinall, PhD (Oxford), Professor, Faculty of Economics, Department of Social Systems, Shiga University, Japan This insightful book about language education involves different disciplines using ethnographic methods. Both ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speakers of Japanese (or English) collaboratively examine two different types of qualitative approaches in Japan – the positivistic and the processual. This is a must-have book for researchers and educators of language who are interested in not only Japan but also language education generally.” – Shinji Sato, PhD (Columbia), Director of the Japanese Language Program, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA.
Handbook of Research on Effective Online Language Teaching in a Disruptive Environment
Title | Handbook of Research on Effective Online Language Teaching in a Disruptive Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Jean W. LeLoup |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781799877219 |
Bringing the Standards for Foreign Language Learning to Life
Title | Bringing the Standards for Foreign Language Learning to Life PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Blaz |
Publisher | Eye On Education |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781930556447 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom
Title | Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle D. Devereaux |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0429943679 |
Bringing together the varied and multifaceted expertise of teachers and linguists in one accessible volume, this book presents practical tools, grounded in cutting-edge research, for teaching about language and language diversity in the ELA classroom. By demonstrating practical ways teachers can implement research-driven linguistic concepts in their own teaching environment, each chapter offers real-world lessons as well as clear methods for instructing students on the diversity of language. Written for pre-service and in-service teachers, this book includes easy-to-use lesson plans, pedagogical strategies and activities, as well as a wealth of resources carefully designed to optimize student comprehension of language variation.