INTEGRATING CROSS-CURRICULAR TEACHIING AND CALL IS FEASIBLE: AN INTERVENTION PROJECT IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

Foreign language teaching offers an invaluable opportunity to bring peace, health, environmental, gender, sex, moral and civic, road safety, and consumer education into the classroom. Addressing these topics in all subjects throughout the compulsory educational period was actively encouraged in Spain from 1991 to 2007 Unfortunately, many members of the teaching profession believe that this way of dealing with them did not succeed. This idea is partly confirmed by the information I gathered in 2006 and 2007 from the majority of schools in the city of Jaen as part of my doctoral research. It can be concluded from the data collected that most teachers of English in these schools rely exclusively on published materials to deal with cross-curricular topics of moral nature and that many of these resources do not cover this content sufficiently. Thus, to make up for this shortcoming, teachers should create material on these issues, which is relatively uncomplicated thanks to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This is what I advocate here, that teachers of English resort to designing ICT activities to compensate for these essential issues being poorly addressed by publishers. This paper describes a project carried out in a primary English classroom that proves that introducing cross-curricular content in their lessons is something that foreign language teachers can easily do now through computer technology.