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Porto, Melina – Teaching Education, 2023
Framed within the theory and practice of social justice in English language teacher education (ELTE), the aim of this study was to foster pre-service teachers' awareness of social justice principles, issues and practices by taking part in a service learning experience during their higher education studies in a non-governmental organisation located…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, English (Second Language), Preservice Teachers
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Carlos Alberto Torres – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The tone of this article is biographical and theoretical. Biographical, insofar as it concerns the author and his circumstances while also serving as a testimonial, probably partial and idiosyncratic, of the successes experienced by an entire generation of Argentineans in Diaspora. Although biographical, this is also a theoretical text that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Marxian Analysis, Biographies
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Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2023
This article reports a service learning experience carried out by volunteer university student teachers of English during 2017-2018 in a non-governmental organisation in Argentina. In collaboration with their university teachers, they taught workshops using intercultural literature in English for underserved children aged 8-12. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, English Instruction, Volunteers
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Shepin, Laura Graebner – Hispania, 2021
This short-form article describes a multimedia unit of study on social turmoil for students at the ACTFL Intermediate Mid and Intermediate High levels. It explains the rationale for the cultural products used based on current scholarship as well as ACTFL and MLA standards and provides explicit instructional guidance so that students with little…
Descriptors: Social Change, Second Language Learning, Units of Study, Direct Instruction
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Porto, Melina; Tavella, Gabriela; Fernández, Carina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article reports a service learning experience carried out by university student tour-guides and pre-service teachers of English during 2017-2018 in a rural multi-grade primary school in northern Argentinian Patagonia. With their university English language teachers, participants taught workshops using intercultural literature in English to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language)
Andrzej Cirocki, Editor; Raichle Farrelly, Editor; Taylor Sapp, Editor – Springer, 2024
This volume features current, innovative, and effective ways of developing instructional materials for diverse English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts. It is divided into four sections, each featuring pedagogical materials designed for specific groups of learners. The sections focus on materials for general English, ESP and EAP, CLIL, and ELT…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Cai, Xiuying – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
As the global community strives for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, the first goal of 'ending poverty in all its forms everywhere', university students' learning experiences and understanding about global poverty remain comparatively unexplored. This in-depth qualitative study examines how university students in the USA…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Illiteracy, Global Approach
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Banegas, Darío Luis – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Since the enforcement of Law 26,150 (Congreso de la Nación Argentina 2006) through which a national programme on comprehensive sexual education (CSE) was created, the Argentinian educational system must include perspectives, contents, and discursive practices around CSE across the curriculum in kindergarten, primary, secondary, and initial teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Mattei, Paola, Ed.; Dumay, Xavier, Ed.; Mangez, Eric, Ed.; Behrend, Jacqueline, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2023
Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable of explaining its historical origin and expansion. For education researchers attempting to elucidate how global changes and processes affect their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Guides, Social Theories, Social Change
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Porto, Melina – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study reports on the evaluation of long-term impact of four intercultural citizenship projects undertaken in university foreign language classrooms. Curricular developments based on Byram's intercultural citizenship theory have demonstrated the immediate impact including the development of self and intercultural awareness, criticality, social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice