The way culture and teaching
languages are related
Culture and society are influenced by the language
To be successful in language
learning I need to know about
the culture that language
comes from
Teachers need to teach how a language operates
technically and culturally.
Language and culture have a reciprocal relation
They are connected and one
influences the other
Language is the way we communicate thoughts,
beliefs, feelings and reactions about everything. It is
used to express all our traditions and heritage; our
particular way to see the world.
thoughts
beliefs
feelings
reactions
Culture is totally
embeeded into the
language
“A language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of a language;
the two are intricately interwoven so that one can not separate the
two without losing the significance of either language or culture.”
Brown (2000, p.177):
If we, as teachers pretend to separate culture from language
we are not teaching the language, we only would teach a
sum of information without social conection.
Therefore it is necessary that teachers could talk about the
culture, comparing similarities and stating differences
between both, target and native language