Environmental awareness through writing tasks to learn english

Abstract

This project reports an action research study, carried out with ninth graders in a public school in Bogotá aimed to integrate the environmental knowledge in an interdisciplinary way into the English lessons, in order to guide the students to propose projects to help the planet. In this sense, English classes were focused on education to prevent environmental damage contributing in the creation of citizens aware of that problem. The methodology was based on giving a topic related to environmental issues and starting from that to create discussions in the classroom to generate a product at the end of the class (Mainly written texts and posters). The findings of the project show that the implementation of environmental topics in a foreign language classroom can be a useful way for teachers to develop the lessons and to create meaningful learning in the students, and to make the students become aware of the problems of the environment we deal with, to create habits and develop activities that contribute to decrease those problems.