Using a Workshop to Raise Awareness of the Role of English in Promoting Sustainable Development.
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Awareness- raising workshop, in which participants deeply engage with topics related to critical social issues have successfully demonstrated their capacity to motivate and change the participants’ attitudes (Aarts and van Schangen 2006, Sabitha 2008) . The article explains the rationale behind using this method (raising workshop) applying the global citizen approach to teaching advocate by UNESCO (2015) to improve students’ attitudes toward English learning . The idea is that those who are emotionally moved by the workshop content will feel an increased sense of duty, intrinsic desire to learn English . They perceive English as a tool for learning about a topic they are concerned with rather than as a school subject and view English learning as an opportunity rather than as a burden . In this method participants in a workshop on sustainable development (SD) will realize that English is essential for dealing with (SD) issues . This article describes the workshop and gives recommendations to teachers who would like to carry out a similar workshop themselves . An indispensable global-citizenship approach sees learners as part of the global community, aware of global priorities such as (SD) (Paris Education Collective 2015). The approach contrasts with isolationist education and develops core competencies that allow students to make the world a more just, peaceful, tolerant and sustainable place . English, as the global lingua franca (Graddol 2006).
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