Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways and identify the main trends of language learning transformation in universities for sustainable development in order to encourage students’ soft skills and competences for real commitment and interaction. Education is considered as a means through which individuals can improve their quality of life. If we redesign institutional educational programs on language learning based on students’ needs and expected outcomes, then both the quality of language education and the quality of life will improve dramatically. It also tries to consider the directions to implement sustainability in foreign language teaching through curriculum, interdisciplinary approach and innovation.
Highlights
It tries to consider the directions to implement sustainability in foreign language teaching through curriculum, interdisciplinary approach and innovation
Education is the central element of sustainable development along with other relevant indicators within the Sustainable Development Goals
In the last decades several international commissions and organizations agreed on the importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Summary
In the last decades several international commissions and organizations agreed on the importance of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Such global issues as climate change or poverty reduction, clean energy or quality of life require changing our life and transforming the mentality and activity vector. Education is considered as a means through which individuals can improve their quality of life To achieve this major change, we need new skills and competencies to successfully handle difficult and unfamiliar situations and reflect on one’s own acts and ideas that lead to more sustainable societies. ESD means incorporating central issues of sustainable development into education and learning and supporting the acquisition of competencies that enable people to live and act in a sustainable way. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways and identify the main trends of language learning transformation in universities for sustainable development in order to encourage students’ soft skills and competences for real commitment and interaction
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