EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of The Place of Culture in ELT: A Survey Study at Four Universities in Ankara/Turkey

dc.creator	Okan ÖNALAN
dc.date	2005-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:23:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:23:58Z
dc.identifier	1305-578X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/89f33d5539c14259b302239d69428a6a
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29805
dc.description	This study aims to investigate Turkish teachers’ opinions and beliefs on the place of target cultural information in English language teaching, as well as their related practices andapplications in EFL classrooms in Turkish higher education context. Particularly, it tries toexplore three research questions: (a) How do Turkish teachers of English define culture? (b)What are the EFL teachers’ attitudes towards incorporating cultural information into theirteaching? and (c) What role do they allocate to the culture of the target language in theirclassrooms? The study shows that teachers mostly define culture in the sociological sense, suchas values and beliefs. Their definition of culture in the framework of ELT slightly shifts towardsmore visible culture, such as food and clothing. The study also reveals teachers’ positive attitudestowards incorporating cultural information in their instruction.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation	http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume1/No.2/okanonalan.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-578X
dc.source	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 215-235 (2005)
dc.subject	Culture
dc.subject	English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
dc.subject	teachers’ perceptions
dc.subject	Turkish universities
dc.subject	preparation classes
dc.subject	academic English.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of The Place of Culture in ELT: A Survey Study at Four Universities in Ankara/Turkey
dc.type	article