LANGUAGES TEACHING:TENDENCIES IN THE ERA OF COMPLEXITY

Abstract

The authors define Transversality as a postmodern tendency in education which takes place in the era of complexity. Also, as a paradigm that dissolves the existing power hierarchies and that interconnects the previously disaggregated disciplines. They consider the need of a new way of understanding and organizing the learning objectives in the university context, so they propose the language classes as an optimal space to help the students to develop their sensitivity to the social reality, to bond the relationship between the learning place and their everyday lives, to the integral formation of students and to strengthen a critical perspective towards the global and local problems.