Integrating Local Cultural Content Based On The Autoethnographic Approach To Raise Learners Cultural Self Awareness In Efl Classes

Résumé: Many researchers agree on the importance of teaching the foreign culture when teaching a foreign language. In intercultural education, teaching culture in a foreign language classroom is not restricted to the foreign culture. The local culture should also be targeted to develop a high level of cultural self-awareness. The present research paper aims at demonstrating how teachers can associate the foreign language to learners personal experiences through the use of an autoethnographic approach to explore the local culture and develop learners cultural self-awareness. A questionnaire has been administered to sixteen teachers of oral expression, written expression and creative writing at Batna 2 University to collect data about their perceptions and attitudes towards the role of the autoethnographic approach in developing learners understanding of their cultural selves. The results reveal that teachers assert that autoethnography is an appropriate approach that introduces the local cultural content in order to increase learners cultural self-awareness.

Publié dans la revue: حوليات الآداب واللغات