Cultural awareness is very important and significant point in learning language. So, first of all, we should analysis what is culture and cultural awareness, connections between language and culture. There are different conceptions of culture. Culture has been referred to as ‘the ways of a people’. This view incorporates both ‘material’ manifestations of culture that are easily seen and ‘non-material’ ones that are more difficult to observe, as Saville-Troike notes. Anthropologists define culture as ‘the whole way of life of a people or group. In this context, culture includes all the social practices that bond a group of people together and distinguish them from others’ (Montgomery and Reid-Thomas,). According to Peck (1998), Culture is
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More specifically, Durkheim summarises the reasons why this should be the case: language acquisition does not follow a universal sequence, but differs across cultures; the process of becoming a competent member of society is realized through exchanges of language in particular social situations;
1.every society orchestrates the ways in which children participate in
2.particular situations, and this, in turn, affects the form, the function and
3.the content of children’s utterances;
4.caregivers’ primary concern is not with grammatical input, but with the
5.transmission of sociocultural knowledge;
6.the native learner, in addition to language, acquires also the
7.paralinguistic patterns and the kinesics of his or her culture.
In addition, there are a lot of reasons of the importance of cultural awareness in learning language. For example: when learners learn any kind of languages, they come across several cultural sides of this language. If they have not understand cultural elements, they will make gross error during the communication with people. Therefore, nowadays teachers try to teach students the cultures of different kind of countries in order to solve such kind of problems in language
More specifically, Durkheim summarises the reasons why this should be the case: language acquisition does not follow a universal sequence, but differs across cultures; the process of becoming a competent member of society is realized through exchanges of language in particular social situations;
1.every society orchestrates the ways in which children participate in
2.particular situations, and this, in turn, affects the form, the function and
3.the content of children’s utterances;
4.caregivers’ primary concern is not with grammatical input, but with the
5.transmission of sociocultural knowledge;
6.the native learner, in addition to language, acquires also the
7.paralinguistic patterns and the kinesics of his or her culture.
In addition, there are a lot of reasons of the importance of cultural awareness in learning language. For example: when learners learn any kind of languages, they come across several cultural sides of this language. If they have not understand cultural elements, they will make gross error during the communication with people. Therefore, nowadays teachers try to teach students the cultures of different kind of countries in order to solve such kind of problems in language