CCU 4 - Developing Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching

Citation

Shemshadsara, Z, G. (2011). Developing Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching. Department of English, English Language Teaching, 5 (3), 95-99. 

Summary

This article is entitled Developing Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching. This article talks about how to develop student awareness toward their own culture and others culture related to the foreign language teaching. Cultural awareness consist of the awareness of own culture, the awareness of others culture, and the ability to explain own cultural standpoint.  In this article, the researcher focus on how to make the students more aware to the target language cultures. 

Implementation

This terms ‘own culture’ and ‘others culture’ must be internalized first to the students by giving any aperception the culture itself. By giving the understanding to the students related to the Indonesian culture whis is having so many different cultures each place, may be it can helps the students to understand about the importance in learning about the target language more.