Dr. Mahan Attar
Farhangian University, Iran
Effective communication is more than synthetic structure, new vocabulary and expressions. It is important to help students understand that a variety of behaviors are possible in any particular language and culture. Developing cultural competence or the knowledge of conventions, customs, beliefs and systems of meaning is necessary, too. Exploring culturally appropriate behavior that may be perceived differently by members of speech community, enable students to find their own voices in interactions and communications. Teachers can make an explicit topic of presenting cultural features in a nonjudgmental fashion, in relation to what being studied. Through applying effective techniques and methods of teaching and incorporating instructional strategies for teaching culture, a good teacher can enrich and inform the teaching content. One of the more student centered approaches in teaching, which is very practical and flexible is task based teaching. According to Prabhue 1987, “tasks are activities that require learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought, and which allows teachers to control and regulate that process.” This article will explain some ideas of presenting culture as an important factor in task based teaching classes.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
