Citation: Cakir, Ismail. (2006). Developing cultural awareness in foreign language teaching, turkish online journal of distance education, 7(3): 154-162.
The aim of this study is to give information for the foreign language teachers and students in how to make a good communication with the target language and its culture. this study states that to understand a language is not only knowing the knowledge but also the characteristics of the culture.
Actually, in teaching the students about the foreign culture, the teacher must explain that in every culture has each norm in communication. Sometimes doing a thing is acceptable in our environment or culture but it can be unacceptable for the other cultures.
in this journal, the researcher provides an activity which can help the students to practice the foreign language and culture, that is role play. In this activity, the students practice how to speak in the target language and how to act in its culture.
in the conclusion, the researcher states that in developing an awareness of sociocultural and sociolinguistic differences might exist between the students' first language and the target language.
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