A cultural Approach to Teaching English at the Tertiary Level

This research work seeks to explore the place of teaching culture in the Departments of English at the university level. It is based on the conceptual framework that there can be few goals more central to the profession of foreign language teaching than the goal of culture and the development of the learners’ intercultural communicative competence. Therefore the aim of any foreign language teaching is in the first place to promote learners’ intercultural communicative competence and cross-cultural understanding. Seen from this perspective this the present work explores an alternate approach to teaching English as a foreign language. This approach is based on the premises that language is part of culture; language is deeply embedded in culture; language and culture are not separable and that teaching English or any other foreign language necessarily implies the teaching of its culture.