Museums as Sites of Transformative Foreign Language Learning Beyond the Classroom

Fabiana Fazzi is a PostDoc Research Fellow in Educational Linguistics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Her research interests include language learning beyond the classroom, multiliteracies skills development in a second/foreign language with a focus on digital storytelling and digital social reading, global citizenship skills development in a second/foreign language, innovative instructional approaches (i.e. CLIL, Arts-based), and plurilingual education.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Bridging the gap between language learning in and beyond the classroom.- Chapter 3: Museums as third spaces for L2/FL learning.- Chapter 4: Case study 1: A CLIL module on Animal Classification in English as a FL across the classroom and the Natural History Museum in Venice.- Chapter 5: Case study 2: An Italian as an L2 workshop at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.- Chapter 6: Case study 3: An Italian as an L2 participatory digital storytelling project.- Chapter 7: Designing participatory language learning projects across the classroom, the museum, and the community: From principles to practice.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.