The use of evocative content-section of foreign language media texts in environmental education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the question of studying the application of a content-slicе of foreign-language media texts, created on the basis of evocative representation, in order to identify relevant environmental topics and use them in the process of teaching environmental students. An analysis of the evocative representation of environmental topics in media discourse, understood as a set of media texts, made it possible to single out the most demanded and topical issues in the modern global environmental community. The content-slice used in the study was developed on a cognitive basis with a systematic study of cognitive categories and types of information concept. Cognitive categories were identified by the representation in the titles of English-language media texts of a certain type of information concept indicating the importance and frequency of its reproduction in media discourse over a certain period. The identified cognitive categories and environmental topics were used in teaching environmental students English, significantly expanding the educational horizon of students, involving them in the discussion of modern environmental problems with an orientation towards the development of their own region and finding the place of its problems in global environmental practice. When using the content-slicе on media texts classified under environmental headings, the following environmental themes were identified: Danger of Hurricanes, Grееn Еnеrgy, Dangerous Footing; Global Warming/Climate Changе/Climate Skeptic, Pesticides, Biodiversity, Wildlife, Ecology in Space, Ecological education and researches, Recycling, Emissions. With the obvious value of using this material in the classroom of environmental students, the issues of practical development of these thematic areas not only in foreign language classes, but also in specialized subjects of environmental education have great potential.