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The Potential of Smart Pedagogies for Sustainable Education in Foreign Language Teaching

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Education for sustainability has its inherent place within the teaching methods in the Centre of Foreign Languages (CFL), University of Hradec Kralove (UHK). The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the employment of smart pedagogies and emerging didactics as a means of education for sustainability, focusing on quality education and fostering skills priorities. The methodology of this study discloses significant sustainability competences and skills, inevitable for students´ future employability relying on the integration of four steps of SAMR model in second language classroom teaching in (CFL UHK). The classification of sustainability competences went under scrutiny in this study.

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Rubešová, Š. (2021). The Potential of Smart Pedagogies for Sustainable Education in Foreign Language Teaching. In: Uskov, V.L., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Smart Education and e-Learning 2021. KES-SEEL 2021. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 240. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2834-4_24

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