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Authentic materials help and involve students in the real use  of a language.

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Authentic materials help and involve students in the real use  of a language.

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Authentic materials create a non-threatening environment.

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Authentic materials create a non-threatening environment.

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The use of authentic materials should match the students' ability and level. 

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The use of authentic materials should match the students' ability and level. 

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Cultural content encourages learner motivation.

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Cultural content encourages learner motivation.

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Authentic materials can be defined as the exposure to real language and its use in its own community. They are appropriate in quality in terms of goals, objectives, learner needs, and interest and natural in terms of real life and meaningful communication. ✨📚

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They provide authentic cultural information 🌎

They provide exposure to real language 💬

They relate more clearly to learners' needs 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

They support a more creative approach to teaching.👩‍🏫

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Culture can be use as an important element in language classrooms, however, some students may not be interested in learning the culture of the target language. This can be because learners may feel afraid of what is new for them. This justifies why it is important to select appropiate and effective materials and activies that can engage learners in real context.

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Culture can be use as an important element in language classrooms, however, some students may not be interested in learning the culture of the target language. This can be because learners may feel afraid of what is new for them. This justifies why it is important to select appropiate and effective materials and activies that can engage learners in real context.

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Difficult language
Unneeded vocabulary items
Complex language structures
Too culturally biased
Too many structures are mixed

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The Key point is for the student to be in a relaxed environment.

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Post-intermediate level: Use in the classroom
Lower Levels: A burden for the teachers.

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-Successful language requires language users to know the culture and language to get the meanings.
- Culture affects indivuals' perception of the world.

-Cultural content provides exposure to living language that a foreign language students lack.

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Teaching Culture in an EFL classroom is effective as long as the professor knows how to approach it correctly

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Teaching Culture in an EFL classroom is effective as long as the professor knows how to approach it correctly

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Many teachers rely on textbooks and focus students' attention on grammatical structures. The activities that they use are based on teacher-talk and student-listen routines. These practices do not help students to develop a genuine interest in learning English. Students lacking motivation to learn a language need variety and excitement.

The reason for the use of cultural content in the classroom is because it will foster learner motivation. Culture in materials creates learner interest towards contents and language.

Three different types of cultural materials;

Target culture materials

Learner's own culture materials

International target language materials