Towards a more communicative and environmental teaching of english in Physical Culture

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Fernando Emilio Valladares Fuente
Luís Mijares Núñez

Abstract

The environmental education is an educational permanent process and systematic aimed at the integrated formation of the personality by taking into consideration the natural, socioeconomic, political and cultural factors, the education in its formative and instructive function takes an irreplaceable and necessary value in the school. The teaching of the English language offers possibilities of communication, interaction and culture for the attainment of this formation. In this work the author demonstrates how the environmental education encourages the process of teaching-learning of the English language for the advantages that it provides to the student by grouping the communicative forms per contexts and in a bilateral way this teaching contributes to the environmental education of the students of physical culture in the possibilities to research on the environmental topics of more concern so as to express ideas of the more competent possible form from the English language as a form of communication. This work takes part of a system of activities of learning to contribute to the environmental education from the English language that is found at present in the period of generalization in the faculties of physical culture of the country according the national meeting aggreement of the discipline Language in February of this year 2014.

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Valladares Fuente, F. E., & Mijares Núñez, L. (2014). Towards a more communicative and environmental teaching of english in Physical Culture. PODIUM - Journal of Science and Technology in Physical Culture, 9(3), 316–328. Retrieved from https://podium.upr.edu.cu/index.php/podium/article/view/456
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