Culture in Teaching EFL in Saudi Arabia from Learners’ Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.18533/journal.v6i3.1120Keywords:
Learners’ Attitude, Language and Culture, Textbook Contents.Abstract
This paper aims to study the attitude of Saudi Arabian undergraduate English students towards the American and British culture by studying their attitude to materials with relevant cultural contents in their textbooks. As strict followers of Islamic principles, the learner might be misunderstood to be reactive to the cultural contents of the nations of completely different culture. However, primary data shows that the learners are more tolerant in their attitude to the English culture than they socially appear to be, but they are keen to learn English as a language with relatively less interest in its cultural aspects.
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