ABSTRACT
This book showcases pedagogical tools for learning languages through interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL). Chapters demonstrate a diverse range of PBL activities that help students build communities of practice within classroom settings, and across local and global communities.
Too often, learning a language can become a static endeavor, confined to a classroom and a singular discipline. But language is dynamic and fluid no matter the setting in which learning takes place. In acknowledging this, this volume explores how PBL and community-engagement pedagogies serve to combine learning goals and community service in ways that enhance student growth and facilitate second language development in an interdisciplinary, multilingual, and multicultural higher education learning environment. Chapters touch on activities and approaches including spoken-word poetry, environmental projects, social activism, study abroad, and in-service learning.
This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, higher education, and comparative and international education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
Theoretical Intersections
chapter 1|16 pages
Diversity and Second Language Acquisition in the University Classroom
part II|37 pages
Teaching and Learning
chapter 4|19 pages
Community Bridges and Interdisciplinary Language Learning Projects
chapter 5|16 pages
Project-Based and ELF-Aware Pre-Service Teacher Education in Turkey
part III|33 pages
Immersion and the International
chapter 6|16 pages
Social Activism Italian Style
chapter 7|15 pages
Investigating Environmental Sustainability in an English Writing Course for International Students
part IV|39 pages
Heritage Learning and Language
chapter 9|19 pages
Círculo Juvenil de Cultura
part V|41 pages
Civic Partnerships
chapter 10|17 pages
Multilingual Justice in the Streets and in the Classroom
chapter 11|22 pages
Language Acquisition Through Service Learning and Community Engagement
part VI|56 pages
Case Studies in Creative Communications