The Effectiveness of the Inter-Cultural Approach in Culture Teaching to EFL Students: Case of Master’s One Students at University of Tlemcen

Abstract

The current study has been carried out in the field of Cross-cultural studies. It is obvious that language and culture are two concepts that cannot be set apart since they are linked to each other, so this is why we attempted in this research to describe these concepts and demonstrate the relationship between them. Additionally, we believed that culture teaching is not completely achieved if the intercultural competence is not implemented in EFL classrooms. However, both teachers and learners at the Department of English at the University of Tlemcen seem to play down this approach. The main results showed that culture teaching might sometimes ignore some aspects and it did not include the intercultural language teaching which the main interest of our research was and which is of capital importance. So, since the intercultural language teaching is effective, it should be seen from another perspective, and it must be included in teaching/learning foreign language process.