Integrating Culture into ELT Classes: What, Why, and How?

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dc.authoridRazi, Salim/0000-0003-2136-4391
dc.contributor.authorTuna, Ozlem Karaagac
dc.contributor.authorRazi, Salim
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T21:07:39Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T21:07:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.descriptionInternational Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language (GlobELT) -- APR 14-17, 2016 -- Antalya, TURKEY
dc.description.abstractThe lingua franca role of English has made a significant contribution toward developing foreign language teaching curriculums from an intercultural perspective. The present study aimed to investigate how pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers consider the integration of culture into language teaching. The participants' understanding of cultural elements they think should be integrated more in the curriculum was in the focus of the study, in addition to possible differences between perceptions of pre-service and in-service teachers. The study was carried out with 4th grade ELT students at the Faculty of Education, Pamukkale University a state university in Turkey and English instructors at the School of Foreign Languages at the same university in the fall term of 2015/16 academic year. Data were collected both quantitatively and qualitatively via an inventory of cultural components and interviews. In total, 43 instructors and 75 students responded to the inventory. Five students and four instructors were also interviewed. The inventory included 45 elements of culture under nine categories: 'intellectual values', 'lifestyles', 'behaviours', 'media', 'artistic values', 'family', 'minor values', 'major values', and 'formal values'. The results indicate that both pre-service and in-service teachers consider a wide range of cultural elements should be integrated into language teaching to enable the development of intercultural skills. Interview sessions revealed reasons why teachers think that culture should be integrated. Findings are expected to contribute to development of foreign language teaching curriculums that give importance to intercultural competence. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.009
dc.identifier.endpage48
dc.identifier.issn1877-0428
dc.identifier.startpage41
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/28135
dc.identifier.volume232
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000387499800006
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Science Bv
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Conference on Teaching and Learning English As An Additional Language, Globelt 2016
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectCultural components
dc.subjectEnglish as a lingua franca
dc.subjectInventory of Cultural Componenets
dc.subjectteaching culture
dc.titleIntegrating Culture into ELT Classes: What, Why, and How?
dc.typeConference Object

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