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Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


Global Education in the EFL Class

English language teaching (ELT) professionals also realised the pedagogical potentials of bringing real-world issues into their classrooms. As Cates (2002) puts it, global education (GE) “aims to enable students to effectively acquire a foreign language while empowering them with the knowledge, skills and commitment required by world citizens to solve global problems” (p. 41). The increasing interest in GE can be best observed by the fact that there are more and more sections of important professional organisations dealing with global issues: the IATEFL Global Issues SIG, TESOL’s Social Responsibility Interest Group and JALT’s Global Issues SIG have been promoting the use of global themes in EFL classes for years (Maley & Peachey, 2017; Sampedro & Hillyard, 2004). The following section presents the rationale behind incorporating the global dimension into ELT (in Section 2.1.3.1) and gives a theoretical overview of citizenship education in the English as a foreign language (EFL) class (in Section 2.1.3.2). Then, it places global citizenship education (GCED) in ELT into the framework of content-based instruction (Section 2.1.3.3) and concludes by presenting what topics are advisable to discuss in the EFL class in the context of global citizenship education (Section 2.1.3.4).

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

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