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Social Justice is a crucial topic to be discussed in World Language classrooms, not just in order to use the target language via relevant and fascinating contexts, but also as a tool to give students the opportunity of applying critical thinking. The learning outcome, therefore, and -from a cultural- responsive teaching perspective- would be not only preparing students to improve their four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing using realia, but giving them the possibility to enhance their sense of social responsibility, and social justice. The ideal learning outcome would be to make students global citizens, ones that will feel compelled to be involved in trying to make better our contemporary and often turbulent world. I argue that the Spanish 201 course: Intermediate Spanish 1, is the perfect linguistical milieu to share through the cultural themes of the course, many important elements of social justice, and discussed them with students. I consider that two journalist articles written by Mario Vargas Llosa (2010 Nobel Prize Winner of Literature): “The Immigrants” and “Fataumata’s Feet” are quite effective and linguistic appropriated for the students to engage them in fruitful debates and passionate discussions.

Keywords: Social Justice- Mario Vargas Llosa- Immigration

References

Vargas Llosa, Mario. El lenguaje de la pasión. Madrid: Ediciones El País, 2001.