Teaching about climate change in EFL teacher education: Curricular engagement for critical awareness Available to Purchase

A widespread effect of climate change has affected many communities around the globe. It has become a global concern that unites world leaders to make a pact to mitigate the climate change effects in our society. Beside the climate actions undertaken by science-related fields, education for sustainability and climate literacy has been regarded as a prominent collective effort for global climate mitigation. To date, most of the climate change education efforts are predominantly within the purview of science education, especially in Indonesia context. Despite an increasing interest in climate change research in the field of literacy and language education, the number of research in this area is still very limited. This article addresses the lacuna of research on climate change in language education by exploring the curricular engagement in an EFL teacher education program. Multimodal content analysis of data from classroom discussions and the group projects reveals the preservice teachers’ critical awareness of climate change and the aspects they considered important in understanding the socioscientific issue of climate change.