English Teaching for Peace Building

Abstract

This manuscript is the report of an investigation that explores the importance of English teaching taking as a reference one of the established language policy, and based on that, implement an specific pedagogical practice guided by an UBD as a contributing factor to create a peaceful environment inside the English classrooms, that is mean, how to use the language as an excuse to improve some contexts. Taking into account the qualitative research that explains how socio-critical factors influence the academic performance inside the classroom, and how the Colombian teacher's beliefs about teaching can help to assume the responsibility of teaching through the conflict, knowing the context, local politics, social problems, and other important aspects. And last but not least, it talks about how English can be used as a facilitator for connecting people with the culture, and build an adequate learning environment full of peace in which teachers make use of different strategies to implement new policies that enable the relationship between the teaching and learning process in the best possible way.