CULTURE AND ELT - TO COMBINE OR NOT TO COMBINE?
CULTURE AND ELT - TO COMBINE OR NOT TO COMBINE?

Author(s): Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: Culture; ELT; Semiotics; Teaching
Summary/Abstract: Culture and Language are closely interrelated and intertwined. (Byram & Grundy, 2003 amongst others). Culture is frequently defined as the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. From this standpoint, language is considered to be one of the parts of culture and one of the carriers of culture. The goals of this article are (1) to discuss the interrelationships between foreign language teaching and teaching culture through cultural codes; (2) to analyze the results of two small-scale studies conducted with two groups of English language teachers related to this problem and spaced 10 years apart at Tbilisi State University.

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