1st Edition

Project-Based Learning in Second Language Acquisition Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Edited By Adrian Gras-Velazquez Copyright 2020
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book showcases pedagogical tools for learning languages through interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL). Chapters demonstrate a diverse range of PBL activities that help students build communities of practice within classroom settings, and across local and global communities.



    Too often, learning a language can become a static endeavor, confined to a classroom and a singular discipline. But language is dynamic and fluid no matter the setting in which learning takes place. In acknowledging this, this volume explores how PBL and community-engagement pedagogies serve to combine learning goals and community service in ways that enhance student growth and facilitate second language development in an interdisciplinary, multilingual, and multicultural higher education learning environment. Chapters touch on activities and approaches including spoken-word poetry, environmental projects, social activism, study abroad, and in-service learning.



    This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of language education, second language acquisition, higher education, and comparative and international education.

    List of Contributors



    Acknowledgements





    Introduction



    Adrián Gras-Velázquez





     



    PART I



    Theoretical Intersections





    Chapter 1: Diversity and second language acquisition in the university classroom. A multilingual and multicultural setting.



    María José Coperías-Aguilar





    Chapter 2: Project-based learning: A five-stage framework to guide language teachers



    Fredricka L. Stoller and CeAnn Chandel Myers





    Chapter 3: A theoretical approach to project-based learning in community-based settings



    Emily Skalet





     



    PART II



    Teaching and Learning





    Chapter 4: Community bridges and interdisciplinary language learning projects: stepping out of comfort zones and building ways to grow



    Susan G. Polansky





    Chapter 5: Project-based & ELF-aware pre-service teacher education in Turkey: sample cases of discovery, creativity, interaction and multilingual and multicultural diversity



    Elif Kemaloglu-Er and Yasemin Bayyurt





     



    PART III



    Immersion and the International





    Chapter 6: Social activism Italian style: building a community of practice through language immersion and civic engagement while studying abroad



    Bruno Grazioli





    Chapter 7: Investigating environmental sustainability in an English writing course for international students. PBL as an on-ramp to academic belonging



    Susan Huss-Lederman, Prajukti (juk) Bhattacharyya, and Brianna Deering





     



    PART IV



    Heritage Learning and Language





    Chapter 8: Project-based learning in the context of teaching heritage language learners



    Maria Carreira, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Shushan Karapetian





    Chapter 9: Círculo Juvenil de Cultura: A ten-year experiment in service learning and community engagement



    Mariana Achugar, Felipe Gómez, and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez





     



     



     



    PART V



    Civic Partnerships





    Chapter 10: Multilingual justice in the streets and in the classroom: translating a digital timeline of US domestic worker organizing



    Michelle Joffroy





    Chapter 11: Language acquisition through service learning and community engagement: critical reflection, intercultural competence and action agency



    Alison Maginn





     



    PART VI



    Case Studies in Creative Communications





    Chapter 12: ¿Y tú quién eres? Interviews as project-based learning at a multicultural college community



    Adrián Gras-Velázquez, Julia Chindemi-Vila, and Ah-Young Song





    Chapter 13: Every poem matters: world language acquisition and community building through spoken-word poetry



    Inés Arribas





    Chapter 14: Films for inclusion: LGBT+ perspectives in the French language classroom



    Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy and Ericka Knudson

    Biography

    Adrian Gras-Velázquez is a Lecturer and Language Coordinator in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Smith College, USA.