چکیده:
This study was undertaken to cast light over EFL learners' perception of culture. To that end, a group of English language learners was taught English through Interchange Series and their perception of culture was assessed using a researcher constructed questionnaire. The same questionnaire was also administered to the parents of the same learners to detect any probable differences. The results revealed that the EFL learners are largely distinct from their parents in perceptions of the designated cultural issues. While EFL learners were oriented towards Western Culture, their parents were lopsided towards domestic issues.
خلاصه ماشینی:
To that end, a group of English language learners was taught English through Interchange Series and their perception of culture was assessed using a researcher constructed questionnaire.
In that direction, the present study intends to compare and contrast the effects L2 books can have on young learners learning English through Interchange Series.
In order to illuminate the issue further, this study also compares young learners with their parents to see if they go different ways when exposed to new cultural issues.
To cast light over the issue further, this study aimed at discovering if English language learners who were taught a special series of books (Interchange) come to prioritize the cultural issues differently from their parents who have not studied the books and are thus expected to be culturally most influential in the family.
Based on the four choices used for each general topic, it was realized that the learners would rank each item in one of the six possible orders of preference, indicating different degrees of cultural effect.
= Iranian Inclinations **=Max; *=Min Discussions and Conclusion The results of this study suggest that young learners of language tend to diverge from the way their parents come to perceive the world around them and that learning a foreign language is to a large extent a way of socially constructing certain identities.
Though it is not 'a magic carpet ride to another culture' (Robinson-Stuart and Nocon 1996), culture learning is a process through which language learners come to experience, perceive, interpret and feel the world around (Brown 2007).