Beyond Linguistic Competences: Facets of Reality in Foreign Language Textbooks
Beyond Linguistic Competences: Facets of Reality in Foreign Language Textbooks

Summary/Abstract: This article started from the idea that in the new context of joint societies and global communication, there is an increasing interest in what role language plays in the acquisition and transmission of sociocultural knowledge. Both linguists and educators have acknowledged that fundamentally language acquisition is embedded in socialisation and that acquiring a new language means acquiring a new culture. In this framework, we brought into discussion the cultural content, as well as the social and educational purposes of FL teaching materials. More specifically, we explored what realities of the world today are reflected in three FL textbooks for English, French and Spanish (B2 level) elaborated by Romanian specialists. The results we obtained point to the extent in which the FL teaching practice in Romania allows for an inter-cultural dialogue between the ‘world of origin’ and the ‘world of the target community’.

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