| Title: | Teaching Culture Through English in Slovenian Primary and Secondary Schools: An Analysis of the Intercultural Element in Textbooks |
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| Authors: | ID Hršak, Eva (Author)
ID Sešek, Urška (Mentor) More about this mentor... 
ID Hempkin, Kirsten Margaret (Comentor) |
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| Files: |  MAG_Hrsak_Eva_2019.pdf (2,55 MB)
MD5: 54996D7723554F3FE4B1EB42AF0892DF
PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/dc1f3e0c-b105-456a-91ed-2d54d88ed122
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Master's thesis/paper |
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| Typology: | 2.09 - Master's Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | Our thesis begins by discussing the concept of culture. Next, it considers the importance of incorporating culture into foreign language teaching and developing intercultural communicative competence. We have discovered that culture is an inevitable part of our everyday lives. It shapes our identities and helps in explaining our actions. Therefore, being unaware of the characteristics of other cultures may result in misunderstandings. As teachers, we must be aware of the importance of culture and should be able to familiarize our learners with its elements. By incorporating elements of culture into lessons, our learners will not only become competent English speakers, but will also know how to appropriately and effectively adjust to a variety of situations, and how to maintain and establish personal relationships. In the empirical section of the thesis, we have studied primary and secondary school English teachers’ views on teaching culture. The results showed that the teachers are aware of the importance of culture teaching since all the participants include various cultural elements into their English lessons. In addition, we have analysed the eight most frequently used English textbooks the teachers use in Slovenia in terms of the cultural elements they contain. We have decided to analyse textbooks as the main resource for teaching culture since textbooks are an indispensable and also a mandatory resource for every English teacher. The analysis showed that the textbooks contain a variety of cultural elements and are taught with the help of multiple strategies. |
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| Keywords: | culture, teaching culture, English as a foreign language, intercultural competence, textbooks |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [E. Hršak] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2019 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-74005 |
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| UDC: | 811.111\'243:37.091.3(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 27283459 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:MVMVNIGZ |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 07.09.2020 |
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| Views: | 1960 |
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| Downloads: | 166 |
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| Categories: | FF
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