Increasing cultural awareness and promoting cross-cultural interaction by teaching British culture in primary school

• Authors: Klawitter Aleksandra

Title variants

FR

Augmenter la conscience culturelle et promouvoir les interactions interculturelles, en enseignant la culture britannique à l’école primaire

PL

Zwiększanie świadomości kulturowej i promowanie interakcji międzykulturowych poprzez nauczanie kultury brytyjskiej w szkole podstawowej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to present selected issues connected with teaching culture at English lessons. One of its aims is to prove that increasing cultural awareness and promoting cross-cultural interaction through teaching British culture at primary school are important. Students who learn not only the language become competent learners. The language becomes more meaningful to them and they become more open to new cultures and situations.

FR

Le présent article a pour but de présenter l’importance du développement de la conscience culturelle des élèves et de la promotion des interactions interculturelles dans l’enseignement de la culture à l’école primaire. Pour que l’élève devienne un locuteur compétent d’une langue étrangère, il doit connaître la culture de ce pays. La conscience culturelle concerne surtout la manière dont les autres parlent et se comportent, ce qui est culturellement conditionné. Elle aide aussi les élèves à créer des généralisations sur la culture donnée et à acquérir des compétences indispensables pour situer et organiser les informations la concernant. De plus, grâce à l’enseignement de la culture, les élèves sont plus ouverts aux autres cultures et la langue étrangère devient plus vivante, leur intérêt augmente et il leur est plus facile de s’adapter aux situations nouvelles.

PL

Artykuł ma na celu zaprezentowanie, jak ważne jest rozwijanie świadomości kulturowej uczniów i promowanie interakcji międzykulturowych poprzez nauczanie kultury w szkole podstawowej. Aby uczeń mógł być kompetentnym rozmówcą drugiego języka, powinien mieć wiedzę o kulturze tego kraju. Dotyczy ona przede wszystkim sposobu mówienia i zachowywania się innych ludzi, które jest nacechowane kulturowo. Co więcej, poprzez nauczanie kultury uczniowie są bardziej otwarci na inne kultury, drugi język staje się dla nich bardziej żywy.

Keywords

EN

cultural awareness; cross-cultural interaction; teaching culture; techniques used in teaching culture

FR

conscience culturelle; interactions interculturelles; enseignement de la culture; stratégies et techniques dans l’enseignement de la culture

PL

świadomość kulturowa; interakcje międzykulturowe; nauczanie kultury; strategie i techniki nauczania kultury

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 207-232

Contributors

author

Klawitter Aleksandra

• Uniwersytet Gdański, Poland

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Identifiers

ISSN

1732-1220

ISSN

2451-1498