Abdelfattah Mazari
University Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco
Naoual Derraz
University Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco
Abstract
The study of
culture plays a very important role when it comes to teaching or learning a
foreign language since words and phrases of that language, such as English,
refer to internal meanings to its culture, creating a reality and a well
defined semantic relationship that the learner must understand.
Language and culture have at least three important
components:
1) Language
learning offers learners the opportunity to understand the relationship between
language and other cultural phenomena.
2) Language learning
allows a comparison between the foreign language and the mother tongue and
highlights similarities as well as differences between the two.
3) The learning
of the foreign culture passes by the knowledge of one’s own culture and takes
into account its linguistic dimensions.
In this work, we
will try to show that these three components are complementary and
interdependent, and must evolve in parallel in the overall educational process.
The objectives should be clear so as to make learners appreciate similarities
and differences between their own culture and the communities where the target
language is spoken. This will, therefore, help them identify with the
experience and the perspective of native speakers of that language, and then
use this skill to develop a more objective view of their own culture and their
way of thinking.
Keywords: language, culture, interdependent, learning,
teaching
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