English for a better tomorrow: practice through Sustainable Development Goals

English for a Better Tomorrow: English Practice through Sustainable Development Goals emerges from the service-learning project Sustainable English Teaching UBU-Bengaluru (SETUB), developed within the framework of the collaboration agreement between the University of Burgos and the NGO FIDESIndia Society. This initiative aligns with the United Nations 2030 Agenda and places sustainability at its core. Its main objective is to enhance the initial training of future teachers of English as a foreign language —currently students of the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching at the University of Burgos, in Spain— by actively involving them in the development of teaching materials specifically designed for socially disadvantaged contexts.

Through the use of active learning methodologies in the classroom, these future educators have created innovative teaching resources that not only support the development of linguistic competence in English but also integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to the field of education. As an outcome of this formative experience, the materials developed have been compiled into this open-access handbook, intended for use in classrooms both by English teachers within the Indian educational system and by any professional interested in language teaching through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).