Forming ecological awareness when teaching foreign languages: sharing experience

Abstract

In the present article the author raises the problem of ecological awareness formation when studying foreign languages at University. The importance of ecological culture and its necessity for any member of modern society is analyzed. It is pointed out that higher education is the perfect platform for raising ecological awareness, and the author comes to the conclusion that studying foreign languages is one of the best ways to reach the goal, as studying languages you can acquire knowledge in almost any sphere and develop greatly the ability of critical thinking. A foreign language has a great potential overspreading a great number of topics in different spheres of life. It is stated that the peculiarity and certain advantage of studying foreign languages is that all the information about the world you get, all knowledge can be considered both as an aim and a means of studying the subject. Studying the problem through the light of different cultures, you have an opportunity to understand the topic deeper. The author gives arguments to the point that any topic is connected with the topic “Ecology and Environment” and can be paid some attention while studying any other topic. The ar