Project-Based Learning in Second Language Acquisition

Adrian Gras-Velázquez is a Lecturer and Language Coordinator in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Smith College, USA.

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Adrián Gras-Velázquez

PART I

Theoretical Intersections

Chapter 1: Diversity and second language acquisition in the university classroom. A multilingual and multicultural setting.

María José Coperías-Aguilar

Chapter 2: Project-based learning: A five-stage framework to guide language teachers

Fredricka L. Stoller and CeAnn Chandel Myers

Chapter 3: A theoretical approach to project-based learning in community-based settings

Emily Skalet

PART II

Teaching and Learning

Chapter 4: Community bridges and interdisciplinary language learning projects: stepping out of comfort zones and building ways to grow

Susan G. Polansky

Chapter 5: Project-based & ELF-aware pre-service teacher education in Turkey: sample cases of discovery, creativity, interaction and multilingual and multicultural diversity

Elif Kemaloglu-Er and Yasemin Bayyurt

PART III

Immersion and the International

Chapter 6: Social activism Italian style: building a community of practice through language immersion and civic engagement while studying abroad

Bruno Grazioli

Chapter 7: Investigating environmental sustainability in an English writing course for international students. PBL as an on-ramp to academic belonging

Susan Huss-Lederman, Prajukti (juk) Bhattacharyya, and Brianna Deering

PART IV

Heritage Learning and Language

Chapter 8: Project-based learning in the context of teaching heritage language learners

Maria Carreira, Claire Hitchins Chik, and Shushan Karapetian

Chapter 9: Círculo Juvenil de Cultura: A ten-year experiment in service learning and community engagement

Mariana Achugar, Felipe Gómez, and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez

PART V

Civic Partnerships

Chapter 10: Multilingual justice in the streets and in the classroom: translating a digital timeline of US domestic worker organizing

Michelle Joffroy

Chapter 11: Language acquisition through service learning and community engagement: critical reflection, intercultural competence and action agency

Alison Maginn

PART VI

Case Studies in Creative Communications

Chapter 12: ¿Y tú quién eres? Interviews as project-based learning at a multicultural college community

Adrián Gras-Velázquez, Julia Chindemi-Vila, and Ah-Young Song

Chapter 13: Every poem matters: world language acquisition and community building through spoken-word poetry

Inés Arribas

Chapter 14: Films for inclusion: LGBT+ perspectives in the French language classroom

Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy and Ericka Knudson