Linking The Classroom to The World : The Environment and EFL  

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Stempleski, Susan

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 31 no. 4 (Okt. 1993), page 2-11.
Topik: ENVIRONMENT; classroom; environment
Fulltext: Linking the Classroom to the World.pdf (437.8KB)

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Over the past few years, recognition of the urgency of environmental problems has caused a quantum leap in the attention paid to “green” issues. With increasing frequency, the environment is turning up as the subject of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television news reports, documentaries and feature films. This concern is reflected in schools around the world, where teachers of all subjects and at all grade levels are using the environmental theme as a means of linking the classroom to the world. In the field of EFL, evidence of increasing interest in the environment is shown by a growing number of teaching textbooks and videos that use “green” issues as a single organizing framework for language study (e. g., Derwing and Cameron 1991a, 1991b ; Martin 1991 ; Rabley 1989 ; Stempleski 1993a, 1993b). Other signs of interest include teacher education workshops and courses encouraging an EFL - environmental link in the classroom. For example, in 1990 the U. S. Peace Corps launched a series of workshops to train TEFL volunteers around the world in content - based teaching techniques for environmental awareness (Schleppegrell et al. 1992), and more recently, courses focusing on techniques and materials for environmental education have been introduced into the Teachers College, Columbia University MA Program in TESOL, in both New York City and Tokyo. Further evidence is provided by the 1992 proposal to create a Global, Environmental and Peace Education Interest Section within the international association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). This article presents a rationale for incorporating environmental topics into language teaching and describes some activities that EFL teachers can use to integrate the study of the environment into language lessons.

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