Examples of course activities illustrate the why, what, and how of this project. Becoming a world citizen means acquiring knowledge, curiosity, and excitement about countries and cultures. The English classroom can be an exciting place to acquire this global literacy. This presentation demonstrates innovative EFL content lessons for teaching world awareness through themes such as world flags, world religions, and world languages. Fifteen EFL teachers and 1,216 learners in a Japanese university respond to a questionnaire to determine the suitability of two core textbooks.
Results identify and compare teachers' and learners' perspectives.
The study calls for more accountability within curriculum development. The presenters will give an overview of the materials development project, discuss the problems and solutions, give practical examples of these, show feedback from students and teachers and discuss the direction of the project. Some suggestions include interactive activities, out of class work, adapting materials, topic selection and using drama. Participants partake in the activities as though they were students, experiencing the joy of receiving and producing art while learning English. The main focus of this paper is to track the growth of pragmatic fluency and lexical knowledge in conversation by using a learners' corpus.