[eng] Considering one’s teenage years are a very formative stage in a person’s life,
teachers at secondary education level should aim at including opportunities for
their students’ personal development together with academic contents to make
their progress through high school as enriching as possible. For this reason,
Coeducation appeared very recently, a program based on deconstructing
inequality that the EFL subject has a lot of potential of applying to its contents. To
do that, extensive exposure to TV series proves useful according to linguistic,
cultural, and motivational reasons. They are a relevant authentic material which
can act as a source of English acquisition, they can include many topics that lead
to cultural awareness, and they enhance motivation. This last characteristic is
crucial to develop the speaking skill, which is not usually connected to TV series.
To relate them, debates could be considered an efficient bridge, but they are
uncontrollable and unguided. However, there is an alternative resource that
compensates their drawbacks: restorative circles. With a pedagogical nature, this
versatile resource allows classroom cohesion and interaction in a safe space
while working on any topic or oral production content established in the EFL
curriculum. For this reason, this dissertation develops a didactic proposal in
which, during a whole year, students will watch the TV series Sense8 and use it
as an alternative source of EFL knowledge to the typical textbook. To discuss the
episodes, work on their topics, and develop the different communicative functions
while raising cultural awareness, restorative circles will take place. As a result,
this proposal will allow personal and academic development, which will make the
EFL acquisition process more complete.