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 Englishlanguage 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.
Highlights
Modern environmental education should contribute to the formation of a wide range of competencies, knowledge in the fields of biology, geology, regional studies, energy, soil science, etc
As a result of the selection and study of information concepts in the named empirical material, the following set of environmental topics was obtained, distributed into cognitive categories that are relevant in the collective consciousness, reflected in the Internet media discourse
The environmental themes obtained as a result of the application of the media discourse content-slicе were used in the English language classes for first and second year students of the Faculty of Ecology of ChelSU
Summary
Modern environmental education should contribute to the formation of a wide range of competencies, knowledge in the fields of biology, geology, regional studies, energy, soil science, etc. In the process of teaching future ecologists, general linguistic competencies are formed, which do not include environmental terminology and topical issues raised in the reports of environmental state and public organizations. This issue is presented in an accessible and concise form in a media discourse or a set of media texts when covering the events of ecological public life. The use of foreign language media texts in the classroom of environmental students is extremely justified and has many advantages
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