This document discusses rethinking how culture is taught in language education contexts. It argues that culture and language are inextricably linked and should not be taught separately. As globalization and diversity increase, a third option beyond simply teaching language or culture explicitly is needed. This involves promoting cultural awareness by making learners aware of other cultural groups' values, perspectives, and behaviors to better understand different actions and beliefs. The document calls for developing intercultural skills and unbiased attitudes in curriculums, recognizing diversity as the basis for school life, and enriching language curriculums with arts and humanities.

1. Rethinking culture teaching
Going global at the age of ICT
DIHI Mohamed
Mohammed I University
Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Oujda
in ELT contexts

3. There are three principles on which
human life flourishes:
1. Diversity
2. Curiosity
3. Creativity
Ken Robinson, How to escape education's death valley, May 2013
Teaching
Critical and creative
thinking
Diversity

4. Language and culture
Can we teach them separately?
Two sides of the same coin
Product of socially and historically situated discourse
Shapedby language
Languagesare culturally
Explicit focus on culture
Culture is the keystoneof languages

5. DivergenceIs there a third option?

6. Diversity
Hybridization
Globalization
Culture
The Four Cs
The language of the world
EnglishLingua franca
Redefine culture

7. Cultural awareness
The text and the context
Learners made aware of members
of another cultural group
values
perspectives
expectations
behavior
Understand the reasons for the actions
and beliefs of the other
Shift
Examine cultural products
patterns of everyday life and cultural
behavior

9. • Promoting the Concept of Cultural Awareness as a
Curricular Objective in an ESL/EFL
• Developing intercultural and cross-cultural skills
• Developing unbiased attitudes towards the own culture
and the cultures they learn about.
• Conceiving new national curriculum in which diversity is
recognized as the basis of school life.
• Enriching the EFL curriculum with fine arts and humanities

10. Thank you very much