Fascicle  10:  Glottodidactics (Language Education) 2025

 Service learning and design thinking in foreign language teaching/learning

 The Editorial Board of Roczniki Humanistyczne, Fascicle 10: Glottodidactics (Language Education) is seeking contributions of high academic quality for the forthcoming 2025 issue: Service Learning and Design Thinking in Foreign Language Teaching/Learning.

Service learning is an educational method which combines community action with learning opportunities for the young people involved. Service learning is considered to be a sustainable approach to experiential education and training. Design thinking is a method that aims to create innovative solutions using creative thinking techniques (e.g. brainstorming, mind mapping). It is based on empathy to better understand what the audience needs and expects. Both methods are used in academic teaching, and they are used by growing numbers of supporters and users in language teaching and learning, among others.

Articles proposed in relation to the issues suggested above should focus on the following:

1. Service learning and design thinking in foreign language education as a response to local community needs; diagnosis of community needs.
2. Planning learning activities using service learning and design thinking method.
3. Integrating service learning and design thinking into the academic curriculum.
4. Testing and implementing innovative educational programmes based on design thinking.
5. Evaluation and reflection in foreign language teaching based on service learning.

We accept only unpublished papers of high academic quality. The editors reserve the right to pre-select papers based on their thematic and editorial content.

Submissions should be by 30 June  2024 to the Secretary of Fascicle 10, Dr. Anna Majewska-Wójcik, at annamaj-woj@o2.pl. Authors whose proposals are initially accepted will be requested to submit texts of up to 40,000 characters, including summaries and keywords, to the Editorial Board via the online system at http://ojs.tnkul.pl/index.php/rh/ after completing author registration. Authors are kindly requested to use the APA citation style.

Preferred languages: English, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spain, Russian, Ukrainian.

Deadline for submitting complete articles:  30 November 2024. 

Important note: Acceptance of the abstract and full paper does not guarantee the publication of the manuscript. The final decision rests on the peer reviewers and the Fascicle  editors.