Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college part 1

Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college

This thesis is concerned with the incorporation of English cultural elements into English training with the Comparing - Contrasting approach at Haiphong Community College More specifically, consideration is given to the why and the how of teaching culture for Tourism students It is proved that teaching a foreign language is not only focusing on teaching syntactic structures or new vocabulary and expressions, but mainly should incorporate some cultural elements, which are overlapped with language itself The author made an attempt to incorporate English culture elements into HCC classes by means

of considering some activities currently used in the light of communicative language teaching Effective communicative is more than a matter of language proficiency and, apart from enhancing and enriching communicative competence, cultural competence can also lead to empathy and respect toward different cultures

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