The necessity of teaching culture in English as a foreign language courses: Iranian perspective

Year 2018, Volume: 14 Issue: 3, 1 - 11, 15.09.2018

Farzaneh Solgi Dara Tafazoli

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The necessity of teaching culture in English as a foreign language courses: Iranian perspective
The connection between language and culture has always been a concern of L2 teachers and educators. Whether culture of the target language is to be incorporated into L2 teaching has been a hotly debated issue. Mostly it has been emphasized that without the study of culture, teaching L2 is inaccurate and incomplete. This study was conducted to find out what students think about the effects of the culture class they attended. As a result of the study, a significant similarity between the students’ views and the theoretical benefits of a culture class as argued by some experts in the field was observed.
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Author (Last name, First name)	Solgi, Farzaneh
Affiliated institution (University)	Imam Sadiq University
Country	Iran
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Department & Rank	Applied Linguistics
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Author (Last name, First name)	Tafazoli, Dara
Affiliated institution (University)	University of Cordoba
Country	Spain
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Department & Rank	University of Cordoba
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Keywords

Language teaching; Culture; English as a foreign language (EFL); Language education

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