The Intercultural Mural: A Proposal for Raising Intercultural Awareness in an ESL Classroom

Abstract

The purpose of the present educative innovation project is proposing a gameboard which will facilitate raising cultural diversity awareness in the classrooms of Compulsory Secondary Education in Saragossa, Aragon, Spain. This project has been designed contemplating the current situation of immigration and its relation to education in the capital of Aragon, considering both the objectives and contents of the English as a Second Language curricula of the subject in second year of Secondary Education. The theoretical framework gathers the context of the current globalised world and the importance of the status of English as a Lingua Franca. Additionally, immigration flows in Spain are analysed as well as the challenges they might involve to education when trying to face cultural diversity in the classrooms. Hence, an analysis on the current cultural diversity in Aragon is performed, specifically focusing the secondary school age population. Lastly, different meanings and theories that try to define and approach interculturality are suggested to propose a way to train it in the classroom.