Developing Related Cultural Awareness in TEFL

DOI

10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.106How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural Awareness, Target Language.

Abstract

Broadly speaking, the chief aim of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) is to enable learners to communicate successfully with native speakers. It is commonly thought that language is a tool for communication. Is mastery of the "tool" equal to success in intercultural communication? Do people with different mother tongues think and behave alike? What factors affect learners' appropriateness in intercultural communication? This paper is meant to probe into the relationship between the attainment of native like competence and related cultural awareness. It claims that only mastery of linguistic competence is not enough for successful communication. It is quite necessary to develop a full understanding of the systems of knowledge, belief, customs, morals and emotions of the new culture as well as the social and psychological integration of the learner with the target language.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haiyan Gu
PY  - 2018/02
DA  - 2018/02
TI  - Developing Related Cultural Awareness in TEFL
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (SSEHR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 471
EP  - 474
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.106
DO  - 10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.106
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