Teaching English as a lingua franca in first of baccalaureate: a didactic proposal

Abstract

[eng] This paper aims at investigating about the status of English as a Lingua Franca in the teaching field and at offering a teaching proposal that integrates this concept, which has become a global phenomenon in the everyday linguistic environment. While there is extensive research on the topic, there is a scarcity of materials for its successful implementation in English Language Teaching contexts. A limited number of textbooks provide explicit resources with non-native English speakers for secondary education. A preliminary study with the English, Spanish and Catalan departments in the IES Damià Huguet high school will be conducted to analyze their perceptions on this matter in addition to asking for the opinions of the students through Google Forms. The didactic proposal of this article will be centered on addressing the gap of materials by creating English as a Lingua Franca-centered ones and on contributing to an improvement in the English as a Foreign Language methodology in eleventh grade. A more inclusive and holistic approach will be suggested through a series of activities focused on the listening and speaking skills, in the form of regular classroom activities and unit projects, which will serve to facilitate critical language awareness and intercultural communication among the students. In addition, different assessment tools will be provided together with these resources to facilitate their implementation. All the materials will be designed according to the topics of the thematic units from the Synchronize 5 textbook that is used in first of baccalaureate