TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH ACTIVE CULTURAL ELEMENTS
Keywords:
cross-cultural awareness, cultural elements, cultural differences, cultural exposure, culturally diverse, cultural context, cultural competence, cultural events.Abstract
This article deals with one of the most popular issues in modern English teaching methodology. That is related to teaching English with the help of active cultural elements. Modern approaches, methods, techniques based on cultural elements are pointed out in this work. Integrating culture and cultural elements in English teaching process is a vital part of modern methodology as culture is entertaining, involving and interesting to work with. The article focuses on these matters consequently.
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