Cross Culture Understanding 2023-2024
The course is designed to make EFL students aware of the
importance of understanding intercultural communication in the teaching and
learning a language. Therefore, the course will cover the basic concept of
culture related to the teaching and learning a language, the TL cultural
encounters, some similarities and differences between the TL culture and the
students’ native language culture. By mastering such knowledge mentioned
earlier, the students are expected to be able to use the language
socio-culturally appropriate, to avoid misunderstanding and misbehaving in
using or in comprehending the TL, and to make them capable of integrating some
important cultural aspects in using as well as teaching the TL or in continuing
their study in the TL countries. Finally, this course is expected to help
students appreciate some of the ways that understanding the cultural context of
communication is vital to decoding messages