Teaching culture in an EFL context (a comparison between students taught through audio-visual materials and those through conventional presentations)

Abstract

ABSTRACT In recent years, a great demand for learning a. foreign language hasbrought out many questions that should be answered. Many foreign language teachers and educators have become aware of the necessity of developing learners' target language cultural knowledge. This study focuses upon the development of learners' target language culture. In order to collect data, an experimental study has been carried out at Anadolu University, Education Faculty English Teacher Training Department. In first chapter, the relationship between language and culture, the importance of teaching the target language culture, the problem and the aim of this study have been presented. In second chapter, the cultural topics which 11 ıare necessary in 3?L classes, educational purposes of teaching the target language culture and various teaching methods and techniques are reviewed. The third chapter includes, the research design, selection of subjects, data collection and method of analysis. Analysis of the test results with the statistical data, are presented in the fourth chapter. In the fifth chapter, the discussion over the research results, coclusion and some suggestions for further studies related to the teaching of target language culture are presented. IV