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Minna Maijala; Niklas Gericke; Salla-Riikka Kuusalu; Leena Maria Heikkola; Maarit Mutta; Katja Mäntylä; Judi Rose – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This paper defines transformative language teaching for sustainability (TLS) and shows how contemporary, learner-oriented language teaching can foster important competencies and skills needed to reach the goals of education for sustainable development (ESD). The main aim of our approach is to integrate transformation-oriented ESD into language…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Student Centered Learning, Language Teachers
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Gay Ivey; Peter Johnston – Language and Education, 2024
Although reading comprehension research and instruction commonly focus on individuals' ability to extract meaning from text, eighth-grade students whose teachers chose to focus on engaged volitional reading, rather than comprehension, demonstrated expansive forms of meaning-making and purpose. Interviews and observations across two school years…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Reading Material Selection, Student Interests, Difficulty Level