Teachers’ And Students’ Attitudes Towards The Teaching And Learning Of The American Culture: The Case Of Junior Students In The Department Of English At Mouloud Mammeri University Of Tizi- Ouzou.

Résumé: The present issue seeks to identify the attitudes of both American civilization teachers and junior students towards the teaching and learning of the American culture in the department of English at MMUTO. It is built around two main models of acquiring cultural knowledge, awareness and skill; these frameworks were advanced mainly by Pederson (2003) on Cultural and Cross Cultural Competence and Deardorff (2006) on Intercultural Competence. This study is exploratory in nature and uses the mixed method; since, it combines both the quantitative and the qualitative methods to gather the data. The research instruments used in this investigation are: a questionnaire administered to ninety students of third year, a structured interview conducted with three teachers of the American civilization module and six classroom observations conducted with different groups. The data gathered are analyzed and interpreted using both the statistical package for social sciences labeled SPSS and qualitative content analysis labeled QCA. The results obtained from these tools reveal that both American civilization teachers and junior students in the department of English at MMUTO demonstrate their openness, awareness and interests towards the teaching and learning of the American culture.

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