This study offers a didactic application of the 2030 agenda by presenting a proposal of activities framed in the principles of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 10 and 12 are used to work with global issues that favor the development of intercultural competence and some social competences in an English as a foreign language subject of the degree in English Studies in a Spanish University. The main objective of this presentation is to observe the suitability of the implementation of activities framed in the SDGs in university education to provide the English teaching with social content. The specific objectives of the study are the following: a) To offer a proposal of activities framed in GCE linked to the SDGs in order to develop students’ intercultural competence and social competences; b) To promote reflection on GCE and the SDGs and its relationship with the development of social awareness, and c) To know students’ opinions on the didactic proposal based on the SDGs in which they have participated. The methodology is mixed by offering qualitative data based on the teacher's observation and quantitative data by presenting the results of a survey and a rubric used to assess competencies. The results show that this study enhances an intercultural and social competency-based curriculum in order for students to develop social awareness. As a conclusion, the study reveals that the SDGs used in the activities contribute to the acquisition of intercultural and social competences. This favours the development of students' social awareness by becoming aware of different social realities and offering opportunities to respect cultural differences.

María Martínez Lirola is Professor of the Department of English at the University of Alicante, Spain and Research Fellow at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her main areas of research are Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She has published extensively in international journals such as Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Studies, Social Semiotics, Visual Communication, Signos, RESLA, etc. She has also published seven books and several books chapters in publishers such as Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, John Benjamins and Comares, among others

Dr. Martínez Lirola is the director of the research group “Critical Analysis of Multimodal Discourse” from 2010. She has been a visiting scholar in different universities such as: Research Institute on Humanities and Social Sciences Pedro Francisco Bonó (2021), University Jules Verne (2020), Manchester Metropolitan University (2019), University of Rome (2019), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales en la República Dominicana (FLACSO-RD) (2018), Queens College, City University of New York (USA, 2017), Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia, 2016), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD, 2015), University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus (2015), University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada 2014), Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada, 2012), University of South Africa, UNISA (Pretoria, South Africa, 2012), University of Anahuac Mayad (Mérida, Mexico, 2008), University of Kwazulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 2006), and Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia, 2005). She has presented papers in international congresses all over the world.