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Golubeva, Irina; Porto, Melina – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2022
In this paper we present the analysis and interpretation of data collected during an intercultural virtual exchange undertaken in 2020 in which students from Argentina and the USA explored how trauma and suffering associated with COVID-19 can be channeled through collaborative artistic multimodal creations, and how approaching this in a productive…
Descriptors: Democracy, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness, Exchange Programs
Porto, Melina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
This paper reports a bilateral university project designed to promote intercultural citizenship and foreign language development simultaneously. It is concerned with developing active and responsible citizenship through content-language integrated learning within an ordinary foreign language classroom. The need and rationale for broadening the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Citizenship, Social Justice
Affordances, Complexities, and Challenges of Intercultural Citizenship for Foreign Language Teachers
Porto, Melina – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article explores the intercultural and citizenship dimensions of foreign language teaching and discusses, in particular, the implications for foreign language teaching and teacher education. The work (1) extends the fundamental concepts that were developed by Byram and Wagner (2018) in this journal--that foreign language education has…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education
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
Porto, Melina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This article shows the potential of the Council of Europe's Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters and Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media to develop quality education in the (foreign) language classroom in Higher Education. Whereas the literature focuses on their contributions to fostering intercultural awareness and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Autobiographies
Porto, Melina; Yulita, Leticia – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2019
This article describes an online project in the foreign-language classroom in which Argentinian and British university students communicated across the globe to address a topic of human rights violations. The aim of the article is to answer the question of whether there is a place in language education for forgiveness and discomforting pedagogies.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education, Civil Rights
Porto, Melina – Education 3-13, 2018
This article describes a telecollaboration project about the environment in the primary English as a foreign language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and Denmark. It combines English language teaching with intercultural citizenship education and forms part of a network of projects in Europe, the US and East Asia. This is the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Porto, Melina; Byram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
The purpose of the project described here is to demonstrate how the introduction of subject matter and principles from citizenship education into foreign language education combines objectives from both in order to give meaning to language education on the one hand and extend citizenship education beyond a focus on the local and the national on…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Principles
Porto, Melina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
In this article, I describe an online intercultural citizenship experience in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in Argentina. An action research project on the Malvinas/Falklands war fought between Argentina and the UK in 1982 was carried out in 2012. Through a comparative methodology involving Argentine and English foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning