Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter #29

Global Issues in Language Education SIG

Newsletter #29
December 1997

Two key events this December were the Kyoto environmental summit and the global landmine ban signed in Ottawa. To mark these, our last newsletter of 1997 features articles on environmental education, teaching activities from Green Teacher magazine and a classroom simulation on landmines. Also included are articles on using the Internet to promote global awareness, learning about far-away countries, using cultural objects to teach about Africa, a conference report from Korea TESOL, global education books for your holiday reading, a summary of our Global Issues SIG's 1997 activities, global issue presentations given at JALT regional chapters and a list of global calendars for 1998. Best wishes to everyone for a Happy ]New Year!

Contents

Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals

News from JALT and and JALT's Global Issues SIG

Conference Report: Korea TESOL (October 3 - 5, Kyoungju, Korea)

Nine Principles for Environmental Education by Tim Grant

Teaching Ideas from Green Teacher magazine (and elsewhere)

If I Lived in Hachinohe, Japan... by Clement Laroy

Global Issues: Teaching about Landmines by Kip Cates

Speak Truth to Power by Michael Fox

Professeurs sans Frontieres by Alan Maley

Using the Internet to Promote Globalization by John Bellows

Learning about the Third World through Realia by Ryoichi Yamada

Global Education: Who's Doing What?

Holiday Reading: Books on Global Issues, English and World Citizenship

New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues

1998 Global Calendars and Datebooks

Global education materials available from the Global Issues Network

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