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2017 ENGAGING THE WORLD: SOCIAL PEDAGOGIES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

 

Contents, acknowledgements, abstracts, contributors

Introduction: Social pedagogies and entwining language with the world

Sébastien Dubreil; Steven L. Thorne

Articles

Engaging the city: Language, space, and indentity in urban environments

Stéphane Charitos; Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl

Cities bring together a great diversity of people and cultures and constitute the backdrop for many of the sociocultural processes …

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Encuentros con español: A case study of critical service learning in the Latino community.

Alberto Bruzos

This chapter presents a pedagogical model that combines service learning with course materials on Spanish language in the United States …

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Lessons from the CruCES project: Community service learning and intercultural sensitivity in the foreign language classroom

Diana Ruggiero

The 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) report called for a transformation in the governance, curricula, and aims of modern language …

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Abriendo caminos: Breaking new ground in community-engaged language learning

Vivian Brates; Paitra Houts; Irene Carvajal; Misla Barco

This qualitative study of a critically conscious (Freire, 1970/1993) community-engaged learning (CEL) track in a second-year university Spanish program examines …

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Social-pedagogical life imitates art: Scaffolding the voices of L2 fans and critics

Stéphanie Pellet; Lindsy Myers

This chapter describes a modular intermediate French course (Pellet & Myers, 2016) anchored by a constructivist approach to social L2 …

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Becoming social actors: Designing a global simulation for situated language and culture learning

Kristen Michelson; Elyse Petit

Recent developments in multiliteracies scholarship and pedagogies have highlighted the situated nature of language use and the diversity of ways …

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Networked learning: Students as producers, curators, and consumers of authentic resources on campus and abroad

Jessica Greenfield; Vivian M. Finch; Stacey Margarita Johnson

This chapter examines the impact of a study abroad course design in which students are part of a network of …

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Beyond participation: Symbolic struggles with(in) digital social media in the L2 classroom

Chantelle Warner; Diane F. Richardson

Integrating digital social media in foreign language curricula expands the space of the relatively stable world of the classroom to …

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"What makes this so complicated?" On the value of disorienting dilemmas in language instruction

Cori Crane; Matthias Fingerhuth; David Huenlich

This contribution considers how challenging moments arising in social pedagogies can serve as powerful learning opportunities for learners and teachers. …

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A socio-constructivist approach to developing intercultural empathy

Isabelle Drewelow

The pedagogical intervention presented in this chapter uses a recent event that received global exposure (the 2015 terrorist attack on …

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Of cookies and saints: Deconstructing L2 learners' myths of the target culture

Vincent L. VanderHeijden

Lessons on culturally integral products of winter holiday speculaas cookies and the holiday figures of St. Nicholas and his attendant, …

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Engaging students in intentional cultural learning during study abroad

Lara Ducate; Lara Lomicka

This action research project creates intercultural learning opportunities by engaging students with the culture of the target country. During their …

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L'incubateur: Increasing student engagement through global simulation and gaming pedagogy in the L2 classroom

Jeanne M. Johnson

This research seeks to increase learner engagement in a third-year high school French class through GS, based on the principles …

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