Open AccessAspects of integrating culture in the Spanish-as-a-Foreign-Language class
Author(s) -
Raluca Alexe
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series iv, philology and cultural studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-7698
pISSN - 2066-768X
DOI - 10.31926/but.pcs.2020.62.13.1.1
Subject(s) - subject matter , foreign language , mathematics education , pedagogy , class (philosophy) , psychology , cultural competence , competence (human resources) , linguistic competence , foreign language teaching , language education , linguistics , computer science , curriculum , artificial intelligence , philosophy , social psychology
While there has been growing awareness among teachers that language learning/teaching and culture learning/teaching should occur together, the techniques and classroom activities for integrating culture in the FL classroom are still a matter of research and further testing. The present work explores some aspects of teaching culture in the Spanish-as-aForeign-Language (SFL) classroom, which may very well constitute suggestions for anyone approaching this subject matter. It is basically an account of my experience with different groups of students from Transilvania University of Brașov. I shall discuss the overall efficiency of the different techniques, specific activities, and teaching materials employed with my groups of SFL students, also pointing out some of the differences in the approach and challenging aspects of teaching culture to SFL students from different curricular areas and students with different linguistic competence of Spanish.