Laying some weight on cultural awareness when learning Swedish
Laying some weight on cultural awareness when learning Swedish

Summary/Abstract: This research paper focuses on the relevancy of developing the learners’ cultural awareness in the context of learning Swedish as an optional course. The course is offered by the Faculty of Letters in Cluj-Napoca and it is attended by various learners (both enrolled students or adults) who want to acquire knowledge of Swedish. The reason for choosing an optional course for this research is that the learners come from various backgrounds, have different ages and expectations as regards Swedish. There has been conducted a qualitative research in order to obtain specific information regarding the way in which the teaching materials and the students’ own background and mentality enable or hinder the development of cultural awareness. The results obtained reflect the students’ understanding of learning Swedish by focusing on cultural awareness. In order to reach some conclusions there have been analyzed different teaching materials and different teaching activities which come to offer support to the findings.

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