Costantino, Anna (2025) Designing language learning materials for sustainability: an embodied approach. In: 2025 MATSDA/BFSU International Conference on Development and Research of Foreign Language Teaching Materials Theme: "Humanising Language Learning Materials", 7th - 8th June, 2025, Beijing Foreign Studies University, National Research Institute for Foreign Language Teaching Materials, BFSU Materials Development Association, Beijing, China.

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Abstract

Sustainability is a key priority in education, with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) shaping both teaching and research. However, a challenge remains: how can pedagogical materials that develop linguistic abilities also foster sustainable learning that that transcends the here-and-now of a language lesson and has an enduring influence on students’ futures (Maley & Peachey, 2017), by supporting lifelong learning in a globally interconnected world (UNESCO, 2016)? This presentation reports on a materials design project that engages language learners with sustainability through experiential and embodied learning focused on the Anthropocene. Using an inquiry-based approach to materials development (Allwright & Hanks, 2009), the project encouraged students to experience language as embodied and entangled with the world as a “web of life” (Escobar, 2018). The inquiry explores how materials can reconnect language learning with ecological awareness and foster meaningful, transformative language education.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	language learning and sustainability, sustainable development goals, embodied learning, Anthropocene, inquiry-based language teaching, materials design, practitioner research, global citizenship, exploratory practice, sustainable pedagogies, eco-pedagogy
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2025 14:25
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/50822

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