Digital communicative competence at the service of the environment in third-year English language teaching

Abstract

The traditionalist conceptions with which the English language has been taught in recent years in Cuba do not foster the change that is needed to ensure that students learn how it is learned. Consequently, an investigation was carried out in the third year of the Foreign Languages ​​program at the University of Guantánamo, where it was found that they manifest a certain lack of knowledge about the use of technologies and strategies that can favor their learning in relation to the environment. environment and sustainable development. With the aim of highlighting the importance of developing an environmental culture in students and teachers in Comprehensive Practice classes, in line with the demands of the Third Educational Improvement, the development of a virtual excursion related to the environment and the 2030 agenda is presented. .Learning environments were created for active participation in the construction and self-regulation of their own knowledge.