Register Journal
Vol 1, No 1 (2008): REGISTER

The Significance of Introducing Culture in EFL Instruction

Noor Malihah (IAIN Salatiga)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2016

Abstract

EFL students many times made mistakes in using the English expressions and led to misinterpretations or even acceptable message of their utterances. This is due to their lack of cultural awareness or their understanding towards L2 culture. Therefore, EFL teachers should think of how to give position to the L1 and L2 culture in their teaching and learning process of EFL instructions.To solve the problems, there are some approaches used to introduce the target language culture, by knowing the obstacles that the learners frequently made. Keywords: EFL; Cultural Awareness; Approaches; Obstacles

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Journal Info

Abbrev

register

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The name of REGISTER JOURNAL was taken from the concept of REGISTER and it has clearly been described by Trudgill (1983:101) as follows: Linguistic varieties that are linked ... to occupations, professions or topics have been termed registers. The register of law, for example, is different from ...