From widening horizons to widening participation : transmitting the experience of global citizenship to the school classroom

摘要

This paper gives account of a project involving Year Abroad students of French at Warwick University challenged to select realia from their host countries in order to stimulate enthusiasm for language learning in local schools. It considers the cognitive and affective processes informing the ‘culture gathering’ that took place: how did the responsibility to act as the interface between a foreign culture and their own inform these students’ own intercultural and linguistic journeys? Assessing outcomes, the paper goes on to describe the implementation of a more ambitious second stage project involving the Routes into Languages Adopt a Class scheme, Warwick PGCE MFL students and staff, and students on the British Council assistantship and Erasmus programmes.