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Cultural understanding has been a program, a vision, a chance of defining a new role for language teachers and the time has arrived when the social significance of this international cultural understanding is becoming more apparent.
This inevitably raises the question as to what it is most important to mediate within the cultural dimension - in its new, broad interpretation: How to Teach Foreign Language?

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Language cannot be separated from the culture in which it is deeply embedded. By failing to draw students’ attention to the cultural elements and to discuss their implications, the teachers allow misconceptions to develop in the students’ minds.

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"If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, to all the rooms inside.” — Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-born American novelist and physician.

Language is one of the most important parts of any culture.  It is the way by which people communicate with one another, build relationships, and create a sense of community (Greenheart Club, 2015).

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Tips for teaching Culture and Languages.

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Tips for teaching Culture and Languages.

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Greenheart Club. (2015). Language: The Essence of Culture | Greenheart International. GreenHeart. https://greenheart.org/blog/greenheart-international/language-the-essence-of-culture/

Shin, J., & Eslami, Z. R. (November 2011). ResearchGate. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254327765_Presentation_of_local_and_international_culture_in_current_international_English-language_teaching_textbooks

Kovács, G. (2017). Culture in Language Teaching. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0030

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Culture is all-pervasive and complex, which is reflected in every aspect of life. And obviously, language is the key to the cultural heritage of other people, or that knowledge of another language enables individuals to increase their personal culture through contact with great minds and literature.

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1. Describing and explaining the culture.

2. Experiencing culture through language use.

3.  Dialogues and mini-dramas.

4.  Role-playing.

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Other Popular Activities Within Culture:

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Other Popular Activities Within Culture:

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Songs and dances

Pictures

Films

Bulletin board

Inviting native speakers

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Authentic Material: As Peterson and Coltrane (2003) state, materials from authentic sources may help to offer authentic cultural experiences to language learners. These may include television shows, news broadcasts, films, the use of different websites or printed materials such as travel brochures, photographs, newspapers, magazines, restaurant menus, etc.

Collocations, idioms, or proverbs: A collocation, as defined by the English Oxford Living Dictionaries in linguistics, means “the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance”.
The term idiom is defined as “an expression which functions as a single unit and whose meaning cannot be worked out from its separate parts”.
A proverb, defined by the English Oxford Living Dictionaries as “a short, well-known pithy saying, stating a general truth or piece of advice”, again may or may not have counterparts in the language learner’s native language.

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It is recommended that textbook writers and educators consider how to create an
intercultural space within the classroom to help learners develop their intercultural competencies and allow effective communication between people of diverse backgrounds.

More emphasis should be placed on the practical aspects of dealing with cultural content in the classroom. Such activities may involve the selection and use of authentic materials (for example, television shows, news broadcasts, photographs, newspapers, magazines, etc); the design and choice of activities and exercises for teaching culture-specific elements as collocations, idioms, proverbs, or realia; planning and facilitating role-plays or simulations related to culturally acceptable and appropriate for the students.

Finally, in the context of globalization, there are unprecedented opportunities for contact between cultures. It should be highlighted that English needs common ground to enable English speakers to communicate, it should also allow the use of varieties of English that represent their uniqueness and support language rights in the context of international communication.

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Culture teaching is a long and complex process concerning something more than language use itself. In doing the above activities, the aim is to increase students’ awareness and to develop their curiosity towards the target culture and their own, helping them to make comparisons among cultures.

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Saturday, April 10th 2021