Title: Foreign language teaching and the environment : theory, curricula, institutional structures /
Authors: Melin, Charlotte
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ecolinguistics Study and teaching.; Second language acquisition Study and teaching.; Human ecology Study and teaching; Human ecology Study and teaching; Second language acquisition Study and teaching
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.