Integrating Culture Into EFL/ESL Classes

Mutual understanding and having intercultural communication skills are more important than ever as societies become more diverse. Our nations continue to grow more mixed and as teachers experience cultural and ethnic diversity more in their classrooms due to the global world, an understanding of the relationship between language and culture needs to be established in foreign language teaching. With the discussions of cultural competency being the fifth skill in foreign language teaching, although this may seem a bit exaggerated to some, in this book, foreign language teaching is considered to be out of its context and incomplete without the integration of the target culture. The study incorporates ways and reasons of integrating culture into English language teaching classes. The book outlines the theoretical background to the topic. It discusses the relationship between theory and practice on this subject matter. It is packed with it offers and practices for teachers, which can be carried out in the process of their own teaching. The author hopes to help language teachers involve themselves in their own professional development, consider critically what is presented in the book, and apply it to their own knowledge, experience, and classroom practice. Contents • Introduction • Culture