CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNITY: WHAT’S IN A NAME?
CULTURE, COMMUNICATION, COMMUNITY: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the importance of teaching cultural courses in the foreign language learning environment. More precisely the analysis introduced here is drawn from my personal experience of teaching the course of Culture and Civilization of English-speaking Countries to MA students who are going to become teachers of English. No matter how common and simplistic the discussion may sound, still using data drawn from discussions, surveys and interviews with my students, I intend to point out that such courses help in reshaping and redefining students’ perception and conception of culture, community and cultural communication, especially when these issues are embedded within a comparative approach that contrasts the native culture with the English-speaking cultures.

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