Foreign languages and sustainability: Addressing the connections, communities, and comparisons standards in higher education

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 365-383

  Ter Horst, Eleanor E ^a   Pearce, Joshua M ^b  

^a CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content based instruction; German; Interdisciplinary approaches; National standards; Service learning; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956585931     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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