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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.
Received: October 07, 2024;
Revision Received: November 09, 2024;
Accepted: December 27, 2024.
Responding Author: Sr. Paulin Mary @ srpauline2011@gmail.com
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4589-0201
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Published in Volume 17, Issue 2, July – December, 2024