Language and culture are interrelated and influence how we express ourselves in various circumstances. Language affects culture and culture affects language in a never-ending cycle. There are many studies which show a learner’s second language competency is influenced by learner’s culture. Therefore, sometimes second language learners make errors which are grammatically correct but pragmatically inappropriate. However, it is challenge for teachers to distinguish whether a learner’s utterance is influenced by the learner’s culture.
Second language culture should be integrated in language lesson in order to help the process of acculturation of language learners. Therefore, Gao (2000) said that value-free practical skill is not linguistic competence of a non-native language. Learning the target culture can help the learners to be able to survive in the second culture and learn the language successfully.
Brown (2007) noted that learner age, characteristics, linguistic factors, learning process, order of acquisition and many other things affect mistakes are made by whether native or non-native language speakers. Therefore, studying the reason of the mistakes that made by second language learner make ages. However, knowing more about the language and culture of the learners can help the language teachers to detect best way to explain the second language and culture to the learners.
References:
Brown, H. G. (2007). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy. (3rd ed.). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education Inc.
Gao, M. C. (2000). Influence of native culture and language on intercultural communication: The
case of PRC student immigrants in Australia. Paper presented at the Symposium of
Intercultural Communication, Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University,
Sweden. Retrieved February 7, 2012, from http://www.immi.se/intercultural/nr4/gao.htm
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