LANGUAGE AND CULTURE TEACHING: PERPLEXING PROBLEMS IN ENGLISH LEARNING AND TEACHING

Abstract

Language and culture are interwoven, consequently learning a language means also learning a culture. When people learn English as a foreign language (EFL) for example, they have to be familiar with the culture of the people whose language being learnt. However, as English now belongs to the world as its lingua franca, spoken by several different nationalities, the problem of introducing culture into EFL learning and teaching is perplexing.