<p>This graduation project presents an innovative course and aims to fill a void in the English Teaching Program curriculum at The Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso regarding the teaching of CT skills to raise students’ awareness of language and language use. This void was found during a deep investigation of the program for 11th grade, which includes the teaching of means of communication in a merely descriptive way with no further analysis on the impact media has on readers.The elective course proposed in this graduation project was designed to be offered to fourth year English students, as a mean to encourage them to use, analyze and interpret news to promote critical thinking through different activities to be used in their future teaching practice. For that purpose, this course proposal uses a discourse-based syllabus following the participatory approach, where students will be expected to identify key issues in the classroom and from that foundation start a critical discourse analysis of media texts, which ultimately promotes critical thinking</p>
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Licenciado en Educación
Profesor de Ingléstítulo
INGLES
<p>This graduation project presents an innovative course and aims to fill a void in the English Teaching Program curriculum at The Pontifícia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso regarding the teaching of CT skills to raise students’ awareness of language and language use. This void was found during a deep investigation of the program for 11th grade, which includes the teaching of means of communication in a merely descriptive way with no further analysis on the impact media has on readers.The elective course proposed in this graduation project was designed to be offered to fourth year English students, as a mean to encourage them to use, analyze and interpret news to promote critical thinking through different activities to be used in their future teaching practice. For that purpose, this course proposal uses a discourse-based syllabus following the participatory approach, where students will be expected to identify key issues in the classroom and from that foundation start a critical discourse analysis of media texts, which ultimately promotes critical thinking</p>
