Cultural Awareness Exploration: EFL First Year Learners’ Stature in Unison with the EFL Cultural Curriculum at Setif2 University

Abstract

The current research investigates the cultural awareness of EFL Learners at Mohamed Lamine Debagine, Setif2 University. The research is exploratory in that a questionnaire was designed to 195 first year EFL students at Setif2 University. The data portrayed that most of the students show considerable motivation and positive attitudes towards the inclusion of culture in the realm of learning. Besides, most of them get involved with big "C" cultural knowledge in their learning processions. However, they express feeble cultural knowledge affiliated to small "c" culture. In addition to that, the majority of them reveal limited interactivities with people of the target culture and thus they confront challenges in communicating culturally with others of various cultures. Moreover, most of them are not sure of their acceptance, tolerance and empathy towards the target culture