Foreign language teaching and the environment : theory, curricula, institutional structures /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Melin, Charlotte (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2019.
Series:Teaching languages, literature, and culture, 6
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Environmental thinking through language / Charlotte Ann Melin
  • Part I. Theory: German Is the New Green? Language, Environmentalism, and Cultural Competence / Patricia Anne Simpson and Marc James Mueller
  • Sustainability Literacy in French Literature and Film: From Solitary Reveries to Treks across Deserts / Annette Sampon-Nicolas
  • Sustainability, Design Thinking, and Spanish: Unleashing Students? Agency, Empathy, and Innovation / Maggie A. Broner
  • Part II. Curriculum: Reflections on Water: Inspiring Environmental Consciousness through Engagement with French Texts / Abbey Carrico
  • Can Literature Save the Planet? Lessons from Latin America / Odile Cisneros
  • An Intercultural and Ecocritical Approach to Teaching Turkish / Defne Erdem Mete
  • Stepping Out of the Language Box: College Spanish and Sustainability / María J. de la Fuente
  • Collaborative Teaching of a Japanese Content-Based Course: 3.11 and Nuclear Power Crisis / Nobuko Chikamatsu
  • Sustainability in 'Post-communicative' Advanced Chinese Courses: Engaging Learners in Real-World Issues / Haidan Wang
  • Interdepartmental Collaboration and Curriculum Design: Creating a Russian Environmental Sustainability Course for Advanced Students / Olesya Kisselev and William Comer
  • Imbibing Russian Language and Culture in Siberia: Wellesley College's Lake Baikal Course / Thomas P. Hodge
  • Gikinomaagemin Gichigaming: Teaching Anishinaabemowin and Ecology in the Great Lakes / Margaret Ann Noodin
  • Part III. Institutional Structures: Environmental Literacy as a Global Literacy in Modern Languages: Lessons from a Liberal Arts College / Laura Barbas-Rhoden, Beate Brunow, and Britton W. Newman
  • Local, International, and Environmental Community Engagement in West Africa / Patricia W. Cummins
  • When Sustainability Means Understanding: Modern Languages and Emory University's Piedmont Project / Vialla Hartfield-Méndez, Karen Stolley, and Hong Li
  • Coda / Charlotte Ann Melin and Maggie A. Broner
  • Key Terms and Concepts / Kiley M. Kost and Charlotte Ann Melin
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX.