this study investigated the cognition of 70 tunisian teachers on the place of culture in english education. it showed that tunisian teachers believe that english textbooks and curricular documents are not specific about the cultural dimension of efl. it also revealed that l2 teachers, whose mother culture is distant from that associated with l2, hold ambivalent attitudes towards culture. they a...

1 Ahmad Atawneh, English Department – Hebron University P.O. Box 40, Hebron, Palestine. , E-mail [email protected], Acknowledgment: Thanks To my student Maria Al-Aqra’ for administering the test of modality which was later developed to become part of her M.A. dissertation. Abstract____ With the advancement in programming and technology, materials became closer to communicative including th...

Dan C. Lortie’s Schoolteacher: A sociological study is one of the best works on the sociology of teaching since W. Waller’s classic study. It is a book worthy of review. Following the tradition of symbolic interactionists, Lortie demonstrated the qualities who studied the occupation of teaching. Using several methods to gather effective data, Lortie has portrayed the ethos of the teaching profe...

1. Characteristics of Culture 1.1. Tradition 1.2. Teaching 2. Material Culture 2.1. Eating culture 2.2. Housing 2.3. Tools 2.4. Trade and economy 3. Intellectual culture 3.1. Language 3.2. Art 3.3. Science and technology 3.4. Religion and belief 3.5. Philosophy 4. Culture as Social Organization 4.1. Family structures 4.2. Group rules 4.3. State 5. The value of culture Bibliography Biographical ...

This paper discusses the authors’ interest in effects of culture on website design in two cultures and on the evaluation of teaching in three cultures. We obviously thought the influence of culture important enough in these two very different contexts to warrant our consideration and investigation. In the case of website design, the intention was to discover any differences that can be attribut...