The Impact of the Cultural Norms on EFL Students’ Learning: Case of Master’s One Students at Tlemcen University

Abstract

t The current research is an attempt to investigate the impact of the target culture on English foreign language first year master’s students, in congruence with the discipline of ELT at the University of Abou bakr belkaid, Tlemcen, Algeria. Thus, the principle aim of this study is to introduce the issue from a theoretical point of view. Then, to investigate the influence of cultural elements from both learners and teachers’ perspectives and reveal the attitude of both of them towards the integration of Culture teaching in ELT. In this vein, the whole findings confirmed what was hypothesized in which EFL students are highly affected by the target culture whereas teachers represent a huge estimation for the module of Cross-Cultural Studies.