Ecolinguistics and Language Education: Promoting Ecological Wellbeing and Sustainability in the Classroom

This webinar introduces participants to ecolinguistics and its potential for fostering eco-critical language awareness in the language learning classroom. Participants will learn:

• Core features of the emerging field of ecolinguistics and its potential to contribute to ecological wellbeing and sustainability in the language classroom and beyond
• The principles of eco-critical language awareness and how these aims can inform pedagogy and practice
• To design activities that develop eco-critical language awareness amongst learners in the classroom