Considering Sexual Diversity in an EFL Classroom: Netflix Sex Education (2019-) as a Case Study.

Abstract

[eng] Sex Education (2019-) offers advantageous number of scenes that promote the learning of English as a foreign language and knowledge about sexual diversity. This paper, thus, aims at introducing an innovative approach in an EFL classroom that seeks to take advantage of this Netflix TV series to learn English while considering sexual diversity. Moreover, this paper will be pioneer in creating a didactic proposal using a TV series, specifically Sex Education, which will enhance students’ motivation on account of its current popularity. Students will work with the TV series as a starting point and will always tackle aspects related to the LGBT community. By implementing this proposal, students will acquire important competences, linguistic ability, and not least, knowledge and awareness about this minority community. Hence, students will be able to learn English from a hitherto, unusual input, such as the LGBT digital material. Consequently, they will be able to detach, unconsciously, from heteronormativity while dealing with sexual minorities throughout the didactic proposal.