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Teaching in the Garden: School Gardens as a Space for Environmental and English Learning

Baerbel Turner-Hill, Christian Ludwig, Lena Böttger

Ecozon European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment

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This paper examines school gardens as spaces for enhancing students' English language competencies and fostering critical environmental literacy. It discusses garden-based education as a form of outdoor learning and argues for its use in teaching English as a foreign language, drawing on Gardner's multiple intelligences model. The paper also reports on a school garden-based seminar for EFL teacher training at the University of Education Karlsruhe, Germany.