Going Global in the World Language Classroom: Ideas, Strategies, and Resources for Teaching and Learning With the World (Eye on Education) - Softcover

Austin, Erin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032467215 ISBN 13: 9781032467214

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

With this practical resource, you’ll learn how to promote global readiness and build international connections in the world language classroom. Master educator Erin E.H. Austin shares original strategies to facilitate productive language learning and demonstrates how to foster a rigorous, inclusive, and enriching environment. Designed to improve student motivation and engagement, the book is a shift from teaching about the world to teaching with the world. You’ll come away with plenty of inspiring and effective ways to not only invite the world into the classroom but also bring the classroom to the world and, in so doing, support an inviting classroom environment.

The book abounds with low-cost, ready-to-implement tools, activities, and lesson ideas. The approaches in this book include coordinating international and world language events at school, using online resources to connect students to new languages and cultures, and broadening student horizons through books and podcasts. Austin also offers ways that further develop students’ global education through travel and study abroad opportunities. With this book, your students will become culturally literate, motivated language learners who will be ready to enter the global community and continue to learn from and with the world.

About this title

About the Author

Erin E.H. Austin is a National Board Certified French teacher, a 2018 NEA Foundation Global Fellow, and the Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers' 2023 Teacher of the Year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032467215
• ISBN 13: 9781032467214
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190