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