Desglosando Noticias: una propuesta PBLL comunicativa sobre motivación autonomía y alfabetización mediática

Callén Carrascón, Hugo
Díez Morrás, Rebeca (dir.)

Universidad de Zaragoza, FEDU, 2021
Filología Inglesa y Alemana department, Filología Inglesa area

Máster Universitario en Profesorado de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria, Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanza de Idiomas, Artísticas y Deportivas

Abstract: This dissertation is conceived as a response to the shortcomings of English Language Teaching (ELT) in secondary education that this author observed during his school placement. The goal is to put forward an innovative teaching proposal that tackles the lack of motivation in the ELT classroom and promotes learning autonomy together with a meaningful use of the English language. What is more, the main theme of the unit revolves around media literacy in an attempt to hone the students’ critical thinking skills towards the channels through which information is shared nowadays putting a spotlight on Fake News. The implementation of the learning unit proposed in this paper is founded on the main principles of the most significant Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approaches. This proposal takes the form of a project-based learning unit that puts the student in the centre of the learning process together with the use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). As their final project, students will have to design a website for a news outlet where they will upload several journalistic articles that they will produce in class and a video they will create cooperatively in their own time. In addition, students will be exposed to a number of activities that will require them to make a purposeful use of the four skills in the Target Language (TL). Moreover, given the communicative nature of the learning unit, students will be in charge of the language produced in order to complete the tasks since it will be determined by the communicative needs identified by the learners. This will be combined with the utilisation of authentic materials in order to give students a realistic experience of meaningful use of the TL.

Tipo de Trabajo Académico: Trabajo Fin de Master