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Title: Cultural items in reading texts in EFL classes

 

Vol. 2, 2017, 198-204.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.016       

 

Author: Birsen Tütüniş

About the author: Prof. Dr. BirsenTütünis (Dipl. TEFL, BA, MA, PhD) has received her PhD from University of Sussex. She has been working in our field as an English instructor, a lecturer and an administrator for years. Her academic research interests and publications are on CALL, Language Learning Strategies and Styles and Teaching Language Skills. Her recent interest lies in Teacher Development and Teacher Training for autonomous and strategic learning. She is currently the coordinator of Teacher Training and Education Committee (TTEd SIG) of IATEFL and holds a senior lecturer position at Istanbul Kultur University. She has been the key note speaker and given presentations at different international ELT Conferences. She is in the editorial board of the scientific journal “ELT Research Journal”. She is the Honorary Member of AzETA in Azerbeijan. Faculty of Education ELT Department, Istanbul Aydın University, Istanbul, Turkey

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-1703

 

Citation (APA style): Tütüniş, B. (2017). Cultural items in reading texts in EFL classes. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 198-204. doi:10.46687/SILC.2020.v08i01.001

 

Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_198_204_7_EN.pdf

 

Abstract: The article displays a study conducted to find out the cultural items in the reading texts of EFL course books. Byram’s (1993) evaluation criteria were taken as the basis for the study. The quality of cultural context in a textbook plays an important role in language classes. In this study, it is hypothesised that without teaching the culture, one cannot teach a foreign language, and the following research question was put forward: To what extent do the selected EFL course books display the target culture? The text book analysis revealed the fact that cultural items are not sufficiently embedded into the course books to enable the teacher to get involved in teaching culture.

Key words: culture, culture teaching, EFL, ELT

 

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