When teaching another language, we teach about culture, food, music, people, the mechanics of the words and expressions, grammar, places, and so on. Most of the time, we focus our lessons on “the book contents”, program, syllabus, or on what we were told to teach. How can we do all that and at the same time teach about what unites all the cultures of the world? Teaching peace becomes an important and meaningful way to show our students how they can use all that they are learning to communicate with the world and help on what we need the most: empathy, love, peace, cooperation, forgiveness, tolerance. Join me and get to know some serious great little projects on how to use language learning and social media to build peace helping heal the world and ourselves. Have yourself and your students act big by starting small…Talk, Write, Call, Record, Tweet, Post, Blog, Host, Design, Build, or Compose… All For Peace.

1. Presented by
Dr. Doris Molero (Pionia Destiny)
33rd VenTESOL National Convention
Breaking Paradigms and Borders in ELT
UGMA, Barcelona, Anzoategui, Vzla
May 30th and 31st, 2015

2. Logistics: Backchannel
 ELT for Peace Chat https://todaysmeet.com/ELTforPeace
 Use your favorite social network: Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, G+, etc..
 Hashtag #VenTESOL2015 #peace #peaceculture
#myfaceforpeace #IDWP #urbe #ELTforpeace ….. Or any
other hashtag you consider will help connect and promote
education for peace.
 Be ready to work in pairs, or groups and take photos, draw,
share, tag, post, network…. Have fun!
 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/doris3m/elt-for-peace-
48738223

3. This is how our ELT Peace Chat looks
like….
https://todaysmeet.com/ELTforPeace

4. Let’s talk Peace …
 Please, Introduce yourself to the person sitting next
to you.. Share your take on the following questions…
 What is meant by Peace? Why is it desirable?
 Is language teaching and learning a way to
promote peace?
 Why should educators promote a culture of
peace?
 Would language become real if we integrated a
culture of peace in our classrooms?

5. #peace #VenTESOL2015 #myfaceforpeace
#IDWP #ELT #URBE
Let´s share some love…
I stand for …..……..

6. “Language classrooms are known for promoting anxiety,
stress and competition, rather than the collaboration and
sensitive awareness”
Finch (2004)

7. “Peace does not simply involve the absence of war
but includes the concept of peaceful collaboration
amongst individuals and groups of different ethnic
backgrounds as well as from the same ethnic
background.
…….. Students benefit by learning to collaborate
more effectively and by avoiding conflict and
violence.
Can English Language Teachers rise to these
challenges?
Marisa Constantinides
Teaching and Practicing Peace in the EFL class
I believe
they can!
http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/09/21/peace-education-and-elt/
“Our job, after all, is to teach effective
communication skills, and defining our
educational objectives in conjunction
with peace education objectives is not as
difficult as for teachers of other disciplines."

8. Peace Oriented Education
According to UNESCO, a peace oriented education…
“…..should attempt to reduce the willingness to use
violence in individuals and to reveal and remove the
infrastructures which cause violence in human relations
at all levels of society and amongst nations.”
“ Human rights and an education which has peace as its
goal are not a luxury but are at the roots of the mission of
an educational institution..”

9. Peace Linguistics
Interdisciplinary
approach aimed at helping
educational systems create
conditions for the
preparation of human
beings as peaceful
language users.
(D. Crystal, 1999).

10. Gomes de Matos (2012)
Humanizing nature of
language use
Identify states of agreement:
harmony,
communicative dignity,
communicative peace
Dehumanizing uses of
languages
identifies states of disagreement and
disharmony:
communicative conflict,
discord,
contention, and
Dissension.

11. “Peaceful” language learning
materials directed to the students
should:
Finch (2004)
Reduce affective filters

12. Literacies.. I’m all about the literacies
 Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of
technology;
 Build intentional cross-cultural connections and
relationships with others so to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and strengthen
independent thought;
 Design and share information for global
communities to meet a variety of purposes;

13. Literacies.. I’m all about the literacies
 Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams
of simultaneous information;
 Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia
texts;
 Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by
these complex environments.

14. Educating for Peace …
 Become members of communities of practice
 Become collaborators and cooperators.
 Become better communicators – by improving
communication skills
 Develop the ability to solve conflicts.
 Improve understanding and develop empathy for
others.
 Develop the ability to view issues from multiple
perspectives.
 Develop knowledge about the world
 Develop critical thinking.
 Connect with peers and the world

15. A little bit about my classes
University students

16. Here…..you find us on line

17.  My face for peace
 Avatars for Peace
 Words for peace - I stand for peace
 Voices for peace
 A poem for peace
 Caps for kids
 Celebrating Peace Day
 Video Lyrics for Peace
 I declare World Peace
 Illustrations for Peace
 Illustrating a peace story
 Peace posters

18. http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2013/03/my-face-for-
peace-project-fireworks-for.html
My Face for Peace Project: Fireworks for Peace
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2013/03/avatars-for-
peace-efl-language-project.html

19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xpzHngFss

21. https://www.facebook.com/MyFaceForPeaceVenezuela
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/media_set?set
=a.10152578288625368.957015.642495367&type=3
https://www.facebook.com/groups/641621699186528/

26. https://www.startnext.com/en/my
faceforpeace

27. Twitter
#myfaceforpeace
#facesandavatarsforpeace

28. #prayfornepal
#WeALLHaveARightToPeace #PeaceDay
#songsforpeace

29. Words for Peace.. We stand for Peace
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/05/workshop-1-words-for-peace.html

31. Voices for Peace: Oral expression
https://soundcloud.com/doris-
molero/aless-1?in=doris-
molero/sets/voices-for-peace

32. Posters and Infographics for Peace
http://doris3meflcenterenglishforwork.blogspot.com
/2015/01/posters-and-infographics-for-peace.html

33. Posters for Peace: ESP Project
http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/posters-for-peace/

34. https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/posts/10154549206825368

35. ESP Curating
http://www.scoop.it/t/say-alex
http://www.scoop.it/t/graphic-desgin-by-alessandra-briceno
http://www.scoop.it/t/graphic-design-by-
daniela-morales?fk

37. Poems for Peace
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/07/apoemforpeace.html

38. Caps for Kids URBE
https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero/media_set?set=a.10154465191640368.1073741893.
642495367&type=3

40. Peace Day
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/2014/09/international-day-of-peace-peace-day.html

41. Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/images-and-
language-of-peace/
http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/avatars-
for-peace/
http://www.pinterest.com/doris3m/our-faces-for-peace-efl-for-peace/

42. VIDEO Lyrics for Peace! ESP Project
http://doris3meflcenterenglishforwork.blogspot.com/2015/0
4/video-lyrics-for-peace-part-1.html

43. I Declare World Peace
I declare world peace you tube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/ideclareworldpeace
Lawrence R. Gelber

44. You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9vJTCoKAc8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2jNLt-fEro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixKw8KsRLM

45. Second Life
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/EduNation/48/217/31

46. Thanks for your Attention

47. Resources to teach peace
 Teaching Peace through Literature and
Song (K-2)
http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit156/lesso
n2.html
 ESL Discussion Questions about Peace & World
Peace http://wuxiesl.blogspot.com/2012/12/esl-
discussion-questions-about-peace.html
 Peace and solidarity worksheets
http://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary_
worksheets/peace_and_solidarity/

48. Reference
 Finch, Andrew. "Promoting peace in
the EFL classroom." Korea Teachers
of English to Speakers of Other
Languages 7.1 (2004): 21.
http://www.finchpark.com/arts/Pro
moting_Peace_KTJ.pdf

49. Doris Molero, Ph.D., Instructor
Rafael Belloso Chacin University
doris3m@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter: @doris3m, we're using the
hashtag #doris3meflcenter for this course.
You can visit our class blog:
http://doris3meflcenter.blogspot.com/
You can also follow me on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/doris.molero
Join our class Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5204964451/