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This study is aimed to investigate teachers' opinion and their attitudes toward the integration of culture and English language education. More specifically, this study explores how and to what extent these opinions and attitudes are reflected in their classroom applications. Data were collected from 31 teachers of English Department at one of universities in Indonesia using questionnaire, interview, and observation. Findings revealed that teachers were willing to support the language and cultural objectives, but they had conflicts when having to prioritize language teaching or cultural teaching. Teachers informed that limited class time, curriculum requirements, lack of cultural issues in the textbooks, and their lack of cultural knowledge were the main constraints for the integration of cultural teaching into EFL. This study shows the importance of integrating culture & intercultural dimension into EFL instruction in order to help facilitate both language learning and effective communication.
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References
Brown, H. D. (1994). Principles of language learning and teaching. The USA: Prentice Hall
Regents
Byram, M. (1997). Teaching and assessing intercultural communicative competence. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Byram, M., Gribkova, B., & Starkey, H. (2002). Developing the intercultural dimension in language teaching: A Practical Introduction for Teachers. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Byram, M. (2008). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: Essays and reflections. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
í‡elik, S. (2005). ). Get your face out of mine: Culture-oriented distance in EFL Context: A helpful guide for Turkish EFL teachers. Tí–MER Language Journal, 128, 37-50.
Gobel, K., & Helmke, A. (2010). Intercultural learning in English as foreign language instruction: The importance of teachers' intercultural experience and the. Teaching and Teacher Education 26(8), 1571-1582.
Holmes, P. (2009). Intercultural competence: Asia-Pacific Region: Concepts, methods, and tools for intercultural competence and mediation. Report for the State of the Arts and Perspectives on Intercultural Competences and Skills, UNESCO.
Sercu, L. (2006). The foreign language and intercultural competence teacher: the acquisition of a new professional identity. Intercultural Education, 17(1), 55-72.
Sun, W. (2013). How to cultivate intercultural communication competence of non-English major students. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(12), 2245-2249.
Tan, X. (2016). Language norm in various stages of English learning in mainland. Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 14(1), 92-103.
Zhou, Y. (2011). A study of Chinese university EFL teachers and their intercultural competence teaching. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.