Redesigning ELT: An Ecolinguistic Approach

Name of Author : Durbadal Datta

Abstract: In India the National Education Policy 2020 lays emphasis on organic living in proximity with nature, environmental education, sustainable development, and national textbooks with local content and flavor. On the other hand, a recent series of catastrophic events wildfires, floods, locust plagues, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shaken the world’s environmental conscience so terribly that a paradigm shift in education is essential to combat the present situation and to promote learning to live in harmony with nature. In case of English Language Teaching (ELT), the whole curriculum is to be redesigned to meet the individual, national as well as global need. This paper deals with the need for a paradigm shift and developing an outline for the new paradigm from the perspectives of ecolinguistics. An ecolinguistic approach to ELT can build up the learner’s perception of both language and the linguistic environment.

Keywords : National Education Policy, Curriculum, local content, Ecolinguistics, Ecological Awareness.

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