The importance of cultural awareness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
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The importance of cultural awareness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction to undergraduate students journal explain that the negative impact of the lack of target-language cultural information in communication is especially strong in the process of communication between non-native speakers with native speakers. A native speaker may use many names, facts, holidays, idioms, which are culturally-bound and not known to the non-native speaker, which will cause misunderstanding or lack of understanding. The researcher then held an experiment to check the effectiveness of culturally-sensitive English language teaching in acquisition of communicative competence in the English language. He made two different groups, the first is experimental group, the researcher created special activities using different approaches, methods, and techniques to enhanced students’ skills for comparative analysis of their own and target culture while maintaining their own cultural identity. While the control group simply used the materials provided by the English textbook. These materials to a less degree focuse on culturallysensitive language teaching.
The importance of cultural awareness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction to undergraduate students journal explain that the negative impact of the lack of target-language cultural information in communication is especially strong in the process of communication between non-native speakers with native speakers. A native speaker may use many names, facts, holidays, idioms, which are culturally-bound and not known to the non-native speaker, which will cause misunderstanding or lack of understanding. The researcher then held an experiment to check the effectiveness of culturally-sensitive English language teaching in acquisition of communicative competence in the English language. He made two different groups, the first is experimental group, the researcher created special activities using different approaches, methods, and techniques to enhanced students’ skills for comparative analysis of their own and target culture while maintaining their own cultural identity. While the control group simply used the materials provided by the English textbook. These materials to a less degree focuse on culturallysensitive language teaching.
After that the researcher set a test to measure 4 aspect; culture awareness, command of etiquette, understanding of outward cultural differences and understanding of cultural values. In the end, the result shows the increase in the four aspect. Means that students have more knowledge and understanding about their cultures and others’ cultures.
I may give attention about cultural awareness in my future class because i think my students need to know about that. And its important for them to understand about others’ culture especially if they wanna go abroad. But i still need to learn a lot about how to implement cultural awareness in the class while i teach about english language.
Source : The importance of cultural awareness in English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
instruction to undergraduate students
by Nino TVALCHRELIDZE
Journal of Education; ISSN 2298-0172; Volume 3, Issue 1, 2014
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