The Importance of Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom

... Researchers were in agreement that the issue on effective teaching approach has persisted through the years. Recent investigations still echo what earlier scholars have asserted: that teachers' lessons tend to lack emphasis on cultural perspectives (Jernigan & Moore, 1997) and that teachers usually emphasize more on linguistic knowledge and pay little attention to cultural background knowledge (Klein, 2004). La Fayette (1988) shared a similar idea and reports that teachers spent a great deal of time teaching grammar and lexical components. ...