[eng] Environmental problems and the importance of English as an international
language of discourse are increasingly visible in our world. However, not
everybody seems to be aware of their significance. While the environment is
evolving to its detriment, few people are getting involved in its recovery. At the
same time, students have changed, but education barely has at all over many
years and few teachers are involved in its innovation. Hence, experts have
mentioned that environmental education (EE) has to be incorporated into all
subjects, even those that are not necessarily designed with this objective.
Therefore, a study will be carried out interviewing several secondary schools to
figure out how each of them incorporate environmental issues into the syllabus
and how they do so. This paper specializes in the subject of English, with the
main objective of engaging and motivating students to acquire the language
through environmental education, in order to provide a real purpose and a real
use to the language outside the classroom, apart from increasing moral and
ethical values in the students. For this, a didactic proposal is made in two parts.
The first one consists of the adaptation of the units of a Students' Book,
extrapolating them to environmental issues in order to continue dealing with the
relevant linguistic aspects of the language. The second part consists of Projectbased learning, in which students are expected to work interdisciplinarily with
other subjects, pursuing an environment-related final task and the mastery of
English progressively through a wide range of innovative methodologies. Thus,
students are expected to acquire the second language successfully with a
meaningful purpose that will motivate students to be more active in their
personal and educational development.