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Conceptual Study – Published: December 27, 2024


The Eco-English Classroom: Teaching Language through Environmental Literature

Sr. Paulin Mary
ABSTRACT
The growing urgency of environmental issues has transformed the educational landscape, calling for interdisciplinary approaches that integrate sustainability into language learning. The Eco-English Classroom explores how environmental narratives, poetry, and non-fiction texts can serve as dynamic resources for developing linguistic competence while fostering ecological awareness. This pedagogy positions environmental literature as a catalyst for critical thinking, empathy, and global citizenship. Experiential activities such as eco-poetry, debates on sustainability, nature journaling, and collaborative projects are emphasized, aligning language education with the principles of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Integrating environmental literature into English classrooms strengthens communicative competence while cultivating ecological literacy and social responsibility.
Keywords: Eco-English, environmental literature, language learning, sustainability education, climate change, education for sustainable development (ESD), ecological literacy, interdisciplinary pedagogy, communicative competence, global citizenship
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Paulin Mary, S. (2024). The eco-English classroom: Teaching language through environmental literature. Indian Educational Researcher, 17 (2), 40–47. https://doi.org/10.34293/0974-2123.v17n2.005
Received: October 07, 2024; Revision Received: November 09, 2024; Accepted: December 27, 2024.