The document discusses the importance of teaching culture when teaching foreign languages. It notes that language and culture are intertwined and that culture is not just about historical elements but also values and thought patterns. In the past, foreign language teaching did not focus enough on culture, but approaches then started incorporating more cultural elements in the 1960s-1970s to make language learning easier. By the 1970s, methods shifted from a grammatical to a more communicative approach that focused on natural cultural exchange. Teachers must teach cultural aspects of a language as an interpersonal process so students become accustomed to different values from the target language culture. Showing students ways to interact and experience different cultures in the classroom allows them to learn culture over time through practice

2.  Linguistic and innate power of the formal structures are
needed to process specific data of culture.
 Language can be used as a way to express the specific
knowledge of culture.
 The language and the cultures they reflect and express as
living organisms and permanent transformation and
development.

3.  Culture is not in the individual mind, but in
activity, any study of language is necessarily a
study of culture, to respond constantly to new
situations, in contexts cultural and linguistically
diverse and complex.

4. It existed controversy on foreign
language teaching between scholars
due to the language culture was not
being teaching and this is very
important to comprehend people
customs, history, and so on.
Firstly, in the 1960s and 1970s, Brooks
wrote topics related to the culture such
as greetings, personal possessions,
cosmetics, and so on. This was in order
to ease language learning.

5. The most important things for
language learners is the hidden
culture which is about values and
thought patters and not the high one
which is about historic elements.
Also, in the 1970s was changed
Audiolingual Method by a
communicative approach due to
it was most essential a natural
cultural interchanging instead of
a grammatical one.
Likewise, teachers have to teach
cultural language like an interpersonal
process so the pupils get acquainted to
the other language, due to the values
or mindset could be different to them.

6. It is necessary to know students
already got a culture before the knew
one. So, teaching culture brings
awareness and fosters the student’s
observation of details in
communication with native speakers
of the target language.
Culture is the foundation of
communication, language goes
beyond words and structures, it is
related to culture directly due to
culture explains who talks to
whom, how people encode
messages and so on.

7. Culture is viewed as some that go
beyond and cover more aspects and it
is not something that you can teach;
it is something that you acquire along
time.
So, it is necessary to show the way and
the classroom is the place which offers
the chance to learn by interacting each
other through festivals, ceremonies,
common expression, and so on

8. REFERENCES
 Thanasoulas D. (2001) The Importance of Teaching Culture
In The Foreign Language Classroom. Greece: Radical
Pedagogy