The Integration of Culture in a Second or Foreign Language Classroom through Reading process.

Abstract

In the past, there was focus on the sentence solely without context. However trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis brought an interest into context. On this premise, the aim of teaching has changed from teaching learners the grammatical aspects of the sentence into enabling learners to communicate effectively; hence the cultural aspect of language has become important in order to interpret a particular text. Therefore, the present paper endeavors to develop learners' cultural competence through the reading process by giving some pedagogical instructions that may serve teachers in the classroom. The cultural system is, hence, integrated into the foreign language classroom through reading process on the authority of interactive communication.