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Porto, Melina – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
This paper reports a bilateral university project designed to promote intercultural citizenship and foreign language development simultaneously. It is concerned with developing active and responsible citizenship through content-language integrated learning within an ordinary foreign language classroom. The need and rationale for broadening the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Citizenship, Social Justice
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Porto, Melina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This article shows the potential of the Council of Europe's Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters and Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media to develop quality education in the (foreign) language classroom in Higher Education. Whereas the literature focuses on their contributions to fostering intercultural awareness and…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Autobiographies
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Porto, Melina – Education 3-13, 2018
This article describes a telecollaboration project about the environment in the primary English as a foreign language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and Denmark. It combines English language teaching with intercultural citizenship education and forms part of a network of projects in Europe, the US and East Asia. This is the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Porto, Melina; Byram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
The purpose of the project described here is to demonstrate how the introduction of subject matter and principles from citizenship education into foreign language education combines objectives from both in order to give meaning to language education on the one hand and extend citizenship education beyond a focus on the local and the national on…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Principles
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Porto, Melina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
In this article, I describe an online intercultural citizenship experience in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in Argentina. An action research project on the Malvinas/Falklands war fought between Argentina and the UK in 1982 was carried out in 2012. Through a comparative methodology involving Argentine and English foreign language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning