Global Issues in Language Education Newsletter #35

Global Issues in Language Education SIG

Newsletter #35
June 1999

This summer issue features a description of peace education language activities on the theme of Okinawa, a report on a volunteer EFL program for orphans developed in Korea, ideas on using global issue pop songs in the foreign language classroom, and a report on an international peace congress held in the Hague. Other articles include conference reports on TESOL99 (New York) and RELC99 (Singapore), a summer homework project which has students interview senior citizens about environmental changes in their local communities, and a list of resource books to help you teach about the millennium. We hope you enjoy this newsletter issue and wish you good luck with your summer projects.

Abstracts of global education articles from language teaching journals

News from JALT and other language teaching organizations

Conference Report: Conference Report: RELC99 (April 19 - 21 in Singapore)

Conference Report: TESOL'99 (March 9 - 13 in New York, USA)

Teaching Peace in Okinawa by Jerry Burks

Environmental Education in Taiwan: The Mountain Program by Genevieve Wilson

The Banyan Tree: Teaching EFL to Korean Orphans by Wade Nichols

Learning from Elders about the Environment by Greg Goodmacher

Global Issue Songs in the English Classroom by Sunao Shimizu

Special Report: The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference

Summer Reading: Resource books for teaching about the millennium

New language teaching textbooks dealing with global issues

Global education materials and global education resource organizations

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