Framework

The article that I chose for my paper is titled: “Tracing the local culture in a reading book”. I chose this topic because I can relate to learning another language from a book.

Here is the breakdown of my framework:

Main Point: It is harder to learn a language when you are also not learning the culture of the topic.

Abstract: A language cannot be taught in a classroom without including the culture. Learning a language from a reading book is much harder without also learning the culture of the language. Some words and phrases depend on a person knowledge of the language.

Introduction: Language and culture cannot be separated in a classroom. To learn the language of a course, a person has to know the culture. The goal is to combine the two. “Therefore, there is need to look at the place of culture in the language classrooms, especially in the textbooks since they are regarded as the main sources of language teaching process, which makes them also the source for the culture of the target language.” People who speak a different language, see the world in a different perspective.

Conclusion: The research conducted indicated that the study has limitations. The book does the favor to any culture. “Although there is such awareness, and the book tries to serve it, the inclusion of local culture is just limited to the inclusion of places which is not sufficient to improve learners‟ intercultural communicative competencies since without knowing about their own culture or the cultural terminology and references required to talk, learners cannot be expected to talk about or comment on them in the target language.” It can reduce the target culture and include more cultures.

Section Headings:

1. Introduction

2. Literature Review

3. Methodology

4. Results and Discussion

5. Conclusion and Implications

Link:

http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JLC/article-full-text-pdf/4309E1B66009