Cultural Items In Reading Texts In EFL Classes
Cultural Items In Reading Texts In EFL Classes
Author(s): Birsen Tütüniş, İlkin Özyayla BaşarSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, School education, Higher Education , Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: culture; culture teaching; EFL; ELT
Summary/Abstract: The article displays a study conducted to find out the cultural items in the reading texts of EFL course books. Byram’s (1993) evaluation criteria were taken as the basis for the study. The quality of cultural context in a textbook plays an important role in language classes. In this study, it is hypothesised that without teaching the culture, one cannot teach a foreign language, and the following research question was put forward: To what extent do the selected EFL course books display the target culture? The text book analysis revealed the fact that cultural items are not sufficiently embedded into the course books to enable the teacher to get involved in teaching culture.
Journal: Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
- Issue Year: 2/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 198-204
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English