scholarly journals REPOSITIONING CULTURE IN TEACHING TARGET LANGUAGE: LOCAL CULTURE OR TARGET CULTURE?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Hieronimus Canggung Darong ◽  
Sebastianus Menggo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Culture Integration ◽  
Target Culture

The role of culture in teaching target language is undeniable. This article belongs to a literature review. As such, it deals with the reviews of culture integration in English Language Teaching. The article provides the conflicting findings of teaching target language with local culture or target culture along with the reasonable reasons for each. The writers adopt the systematic way of doing literature review consisting of four steps namely designing the review, conducting the review, analyzing, and writing the review. Drawing from the review of the progress reports in the field, the writer recommends an intermediary for prospective English Language Teaching accommodating both local and target culture in question. Recommendations for future research studies are highlighted at the end.

scholarly journals Role of (Local) Culture in English Language Teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Kumar Narayan Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Meaningful Context

Since language and culture have muscle and bone relationship, the existence of one in the absence of another in unthinkable. But in practice, English language teaching has paid less attention to the local culture. It is commonly believed that the insertion of foreign cultural values is not in line with local cultural values. The insertion of local culture plays vital role in promotion of nationalism, different local cultures and local cultural wisdom. Similarly, it provides cultural identity and meaningful context for learning. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to shed light on the importance of local culture in the English language classroom. In doing so, it aims at defining culture, language, shows relationship between them and puts forth some pedagogical guidelines. Journal of NELTA, Vol. 21, No. 1-2, 2016, Page:54-60

scholarly journals Disentangling the Role of Linguistics in English Language Teaching

ELT in Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Kelik Wachyudi
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
English Language Teaching

The research paper attempt to disentangle of (applied) linguistics in English language teaching.  In this research, I used a literature review as my method. The result revealed that the role (applied) linguistics in English language teaching is needed for language learners. As a result, English language learners have beneficial from (applied) linguistics along with study English language teaching.  The content of (applied) linguistics help language learners better to comprehend ELT.

scholarly journals English Language Teaching and Cultural Implications in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umar Farooq ◽  
Abdul Fatah Soomro ◽  
Abdul Fatah Soomro ◽  
Muhammad Umer ◽  
Muhammad Umer
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Teacher Needs ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Target Culture

Culture and language are inseparable. Language is used both as a means of communication as well as a carrier of culture. Language without culture is unthinkable, so is human culture without language (Wei, 2005). While teaching a foreign language, a teacher needs to accustom himself with the culture of the target language and the culture of learners. However, teachers in different classrooms in different parts of the world still ignore the importance of culture as a part of language study. This study focuses on perception and practices of teachers regarding culture and English language teaching in Saudi Arabia. The data were collected from 121 (60 male and 61 female) teachers of different cultural background through a questionnaire on their perceptions and implication of teaching target culture in the classroom through English language courses. It was revealed that all teachers have knowledge about the aspects of the target culture to some extent, but how they deal with the target culture is affected highly by the curricular considerations and limitations. 

scholarly journals Translanguaging in Multilingual English Language Teaching in the Philippines: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Tranie Balderrama Gatil
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
English Only ◽  
Multilingual Education

The debate on language preference in English language teaching in a multilingual setting has stirred the traditional monolingual “English Only Policy” in the Philippines. As a result, the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) was institutionalized in 2009. The question still lies as to the multilingual teaching practices employed in the Philippine schools. This study was conducted in order to review the translanguaging strategies of teachers in teaching English in the Philippines. It utilized the qualitative approach using systematic literature review. 14 papers were initially examined using 4 inclusion and exclusion criteria. 7 papers have qualified and selected as samples. The findings of the literature review showed that: 1.) Both natural and official translanguaging are employed in ELT and 2.) Translanguaging bridges the linguistic gap of learner’s L1, L2 and the target language, which in common in a linguistically diverse country such the Philippines. Future researches may look at building a theoretical framework of translanguaging as a language teaching pedagogy in mainstream education. 

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA – INFORMED APPROACH IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING TO PRESERVE CULTURAL IDENTITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Simon Petrus Kita Ngatu ◽  
Basikin Basikin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
English As Lingua Franca

<p>The practice of teaching English as global language that has been widely spread in Indonesia does not fit to promote Indonesian local culture. Most of English language teaching practice pays much attention to students’ understanding relates to their local culture, but the whole process of English Language Teaching (ELT) itself denotes that students do not really apply their local culture in the English language learning. The effort of integrating local culture in ELT is still far from the concept of particularity, practicality, and of possibility. This article provides a conceptual perspective on the role of English as Lingua Franca (ELF) – Informed Approach in ELT in terms of preserving students’ cultural identity. It starts with describing the important issues dealing with the topic, evaluate the previous studies, building argument, and drawing conclusion and recommendation.  The article concludes that the approach needs to be more informed in the whole process of ELT in terms of learning English and preserving students’ local culture in which students are allowed to use English within their local culture rather than only in understanding their culture without practicing. </p>

scholarly journals INDONESIAN TERTIARY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF LOCAL CULTURE VS TARGET CULTURE READING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH READING CLASS

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Rojab Siti Rodliyah ◽  
Ernie D.A Imperiani ◽  
Lulu Laela Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Materials ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Target Culture

This paper aims at portraying Indonesian tertiary students’ attitudes towards the use of local and target culture reading texts in English reading classes with regard to today’s role of English. It has been widely recognized that today’s role of English is as an international language (EIL) and as a lingua franca (ELF). Regarding this international role of English language, ideally teaching and learning English should be matched with appropriate pedagogical approach, in this case, EIL pedagogy approaches. In other words, teaching and learning EIL should be different from teaching and learning of any other second or foreign languages. Since Indonesia is categorized as an EFL country, it is interesting to find out whether this issue has an impact on ELT practices such as English reading class in this country. The subjects of the study are first year English Education Department students. The data were gained by delivering Likert scale questionnaire to the students on their attitude towards the reading materials given to them in one semester. In addition to this, an interview was conducted to verify the data and gain further information. The findings revealed that in general they show positive attitude to both local culture and target culture reading materials, with the majority of them prefer reading target culture reading materials. Furthermore, a considerable number of the students also acknowledge the importance of the use international culture along with English language teaching.

Integrating Concordance Tools Into L2 Vocabulary Instruction

2022 ◽  
pp. 156-170
Author(s):  
Erdi Şimşek
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Vocabulary Instruction ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

Since its emergence, corpora have made investigating language possible in a precise and objective way. Language practitioners are now equipped with concordancing tools that can check millions of utterances in seconds. These tools have caused a revolution in processing and analyzing a language for different purposes. Teachers now can examine the information in a textbook by referring back to corpus tools, keep track of the target language use, and infer generalizations that are hardly provided by traditional language books. After presenting a theoretical and historical overview of corpora and concordancers, this chapter discusses the role of corpora and concordancing tools in English language teaching (ELT), specifically in vocabulary instruction, and presents four corpus-based activity ideas that the classroom practitioners can easily utilize in their classes.

scholarly journals CONSTRUING EFL STUDENTS’ BELIEFS ON THE INCLUSION OF INNER CIRCLE CULTURES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
M. Faruq Ubaidillah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Inner Circle ◽  
Local Cultures

Amidst the vast growth of English language and its teaching in EFL countries, an attentive action needs to be addressed to students (henceforth, participants) of English department regarding their belief systems of the Inner Circle cultures in the teaching of English. This study documented that those students put their preference on the inclusion of the Inner Circle cultures in English language teaching. Out of thirty four participants, 65% of them are of opinion that a language is bond with the culture. Then, the teaching of language per se should include its culture. One participant supported this, stating that the culture of the target language can refine their ability to understand the language well. Unlike those who favor the IC cultures, 21% of the participants disregard the issue. They, under the reason, felt the need of preserving their own local culture in ELT. Lastly, 15% of them, though small in number, put neutral beliefs on the issue. They contended that IC culture should only be introduced as an additional information in ELT as their own local cultures are more appropriate to learn. This paper ends with suggestions for policy makers to reframe the paradigm shift of English language teaching which puts local cultures at the front gate as well as English teachers to assist EFL students lift up their awareness on local culture teaching and learning.

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