ARE WE GRADUATING FLUENT FOOLS? CAN WE RAISE CULTURAL AWARENESS AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
The Intercultural Dimension of Foreign Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Theory and Practice, Dinçay Köksal,Özlem Karaağaç Tuna, Editör, Global Ajans, Ankara, ss.263-292, 2024
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2024
- Yayınevi: Global Ajans
- Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.263-292
- Editörler: Dinçay Köksal,Özlem Karaağaç Tuna, Editör
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
ABSTRACT
Culture is an indispensable component of a language; thus, scientists
have been discussing why and how culture should be integrated into
language classes. While these hot debates are going on, students also
have different perspectives on learning `the other`s culture`. In this
regard, present study aimed to learn about Turkish language students`
perspectives on learning culture and what they already knew about the
target language culture, specifically British culture. To this end a mixed
study was conducted. While 50 volunteer students took part in the
quantitative part, 20 students from these 50 students also participated in
the qualitative part and joined semi structured interviews. Findings of
the study, on the one hand, showed that students have positive attitudes
on learning culture; however, on the other hand they proved that
students know almost nothing about the target culture. The data
collected emphasized that urgent precautions should be taken not only
to prevent graduating fluent fools but also to improve the cultural
competence of Turkish language learners