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studying skills and learning of languages, which are essential for the right
learning and use of the foreign language.
Referring to the contents, they are related to questions of personal
identity and of the up-to-date world, and they work with interdisciplinary
themes.. The sections which are dedicated to interdisciplinary themes
allow students to establish connections between the foreign language
and the different areas: educative systems, international languages,
sports, natural sciences, geography, music.
We will try to emphasize in sociocultural contents which belong us to
study in depth the learning of the culture and the society where the
English language is developed.
2. The project recognizes the important role of the communicative
competence in a foreign language programme, taking into account the
different types of competences that comprise the communicative
competence of a user:
The grammatical competence or the capacity of being able to put into
practices the elements and rules that control the linguistic system.
The discursive competence or the capacity to recognize and to produce
different kind of texts.
The sociolinguistic competence or the capacity to appreciate different
grades of formality and to use the adequate language in each situation.
The strategic competence or the capacity to use strategies of
communication to make up for the possible lacks in other competences.
The students competences are developed when they are exposed to an
enormous variety of situations, contexts and realistic texts, and through
activities that helps them to work with the didactic material, either
individually or with other classmates in pairs or small groups, in order to
establish a situation of communication more real.
3. In order to obtain a best development of the foreign language, students
need to follow two different ways: the learning and the acquisition of the
language.
The learning is defined as the conscientious study, formal and explicit of
the foreign language: to learn grammatical rules and lists of words, or to
practice the pronunciation.
The acquisition, on the other hand, is carried out through activities whose
objective is the codification or descodification of a message, without
paying explicit attention to the formal details of the language: to read a
story, to take part into a conversation or to listen to somebody while
he/she is talking.
4. Students are in a central position in the teaching learning process. This
requires to pay more attention to some aspects of the learning, and to
transmit to the students learning strategies to help them to be more
autonomous.
Besides the mutual respect between the people and the countries,
nowadays it is also very important the necessity of respecting the
common natural heritage of the humanity. This ecologic conscience is
also represented in an explicit way in some written texts which are
included in these materials and in the reflexion that causes the necessity
of moderating and correcting the pernicious effects of the human action
over the environment.
Contents that make reference to environmental themes are:
The urban medium and the countryside. The home and the
country themselves.
The public transport.
Heroic deeds of the animal world. Mens impact in the
environment. Consequences for other towns of the desertification.
Natural catastrophes and mysterious actions.
The consumer education...
In these materials they are more important the situations and the themes
related to the consumption, specially referring to the everyday life: the
consumption in restaurants and hamburger restaurants, shopping in
clothes shops and sport shops, holidays and leisure time, cinema, etc.
The notes for the teacher suggest how to introduce a more explicit
reflexion, directed to develop critic attitudes and of discernment towards
the consumption.
Contents of this dimension are:
British currency.
Students jobs for getting pocket money.
Students of this cycle wont have their own mean of transport. Therefore,
road safety education is focused on very elemental aspects, such as the
recognition of some traffic signs, the public transport, the urban
environment, or the consequences in the excesses of driving.
Contents related to this theme are: