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Empowering Language Learners: Critical Approaches to SDGs

  In an increasingly interconnected world, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a powerful framework for addressing global challenges. They provide a shared language for discussing crucial topics like fairness, planetary protection, and equitable access to education. However, in our urgency to integrate them, are we sometimes missing a deeper opportunity? This article proposes moving beyond a superficial "checklist" approach to the SDGs in language teaching, particularly for those in subsidiary language courses who might feel time-constrained. By embracing a more critical and relational pedagogy, we can transform SDG engagement from a managerial task into a truly transformative learning experience, empowering students to become critical thinkers, not just well-behaved global citizens. This approach aligns with calls from post-development thinkers like Arturo Escobar (2018), who urge us to question the "one-size-fits-all" Western idea of progress often em...
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Beginners Level

Teaching any language at beginners' level has specific challenges that each of us tackles in very personal ways. Nevertheless, many of those challenges are common to languages across the board. This is the reason why it is helpful to have access to what is being done to teach languages other than your own. As each of the resources here came to life in a particular teaching environment, introductions help to understand this.

With the teaching plans, suggestions are made as for how to teach a session with specific resources and students in mind, only to facilitate better understanding of what was done and worked. 

I hope that you find something useful for your own teaching, no matter the language. Explore and decide what you can transfer to your own context.  

If there are specific questions or help you need you can also use Lingua Bytes to get support from other colleagues. Just give us a shout!


RESOURCES TO TEACH SPANISH 

 RESOURCES TO TEACH GERMAN

 RESOURCES TO TEACH ITALIAN

 RESOURCES TO TEACH RUSSIAN

 RESOURCES TO TEACH CHINESE

 RESOURCES TO TEACH JAPANESE



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