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Environmental education in ELT

Combining Environmental Education and English Language Teaching is a wonderful opportunity to make learning English more meaningful, participatory, communicative, and holistic. We can bring critical thinking about deep cultural issues into the classroom, as well as engage with experiential learning in the outdoors. 

Related publications

Braselmann, S., Glas, K., & Volkmann, L. (2021). Ecology, cultural awareness, anti-racism and critical thinking: Integrating multiple perspectives in foreign language teaching. Ecozon@: European journal of literature, culture and environment, 12(1), 8-24.

 

Book review:

 

Glas, K. (2022). TESOL and Sustainability. ELT Journal 76(4), 578–580. 

 
 
 

Glas, K., Chandía, F., Donner, M., & Mancilla, C. (2025). Motivation for environmental action: analysis of English language textbooks. Research Papers in Education, 1–25. 

 

Glas, K., Donner, M., Gutiérrez-Stipo, S., & Mancilla-Cid, C. (2025). Co-constructing stories of possibility: Chilean teachers’ perspectives on environmental education in English language learning. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 1–17.

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Contact: 

Katharina Glas

Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

CHILE

katharina.glas@pucv.cl 

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