Publisher's Synopsis
Language and culture complement each other. Language learning styles and strategies are among the main factors that help determine how -and how well -students learn a second or foreign language; studied in an environment where it is not the primary vehicle for daily interaction and where input in that language is restricted. Traditional thoughts of FL teaching tend to limit on transmission of foreign cultural information or teaching foreign literature in the classroom. However, the current trend of FL teaching associated with culture needed to take the relation of language and culture into account. Language and culture are so close that are being identified as synonyms. On the one hand, language is used to express people's cultural thoughts, beliefs and to communicate; on the other hand, culture is embedded in the language. This volume addresses the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. This volume offers a valuable contribution to this growing body of research by providing theoretical considerations and empirical research data on themes such as the development of intercultural communicative competence. Cultural understanding has been a program, a vision, a chance of defining a new role for language teachers and the time has arrived when the social significance of this international cultural understanding is becoming more apparent. This inevitably raises the question as to what it is most important to mediate within the cultural dimension - in its new, broad interpretation. We all know that understanding a language involves not only knowledge of grammar, phonology and lexis but also a certain features and characteristics of the culture.
