The Importance of the Cultural Element in Teaching a Foreign Language
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چکیده
The present study aims at challenging the theory of “culturally responsive teaching” (Gay, 2002), laying stress on the importance of the cultural iconicity of the language and civilisation taught. The paper comes as a result of the authors’ extensive experience in teaching Romanian as a foreign language to expats, and draws on the conclusions of not only firsthand classroom work, manuals and syllabus design, but also on the data collected from a number of questionnaires filled in by the participants in the summer language school organised by The Romanian Cultural Institute annually, as well as from the feedback provided by these students at long distance.
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