Teachers and Students' Perception on the Role of Culture in English Language Teaching
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Description
The universal principle is that people’s perception about one thing affects how they behave toward that thing. As English is taught in the Philippines as a second language, it is but of great use to explore how teachers and learners’ perception contributes towards teaching the target language and culture. In the Philippine context, the Department of Education under its Enhanced Basic Education, it has already incorporated culture in its English lessons where the progression of the learning competencies is from Philippine to Afro-Asian to Anglo-American literature, thus, exposing the learners to these cultures. This study then investigates the English teachers and learners’ perceptions concerning culture teaching and its contributions to successful language learning using attitude questionnaires adopted from the study of Farzad (2016) based from Sercu (2005) and Cohen, Manion and Morrison’s (2007) , and a semi- structured interviews. Findings indicate that both teachers and learners strongly agree that culture integration is important in language teaching. Subsequently, it was found that the difference between the teachers and learners’ perception were not statistically significant. It is recommended that schools may maximize support in integrating culture aspects in teaching English. Further researches may focus the level of actual and evident integration of culture in English teaching and learning process.