Международный научно-образовательный электронный журнал «образование и наука в XXI веке». Выпуск №14

The teaching of culture has the following goals: 
1. To help students to understand that all people exhibit culturally-conditioned 
behaviors. 
2. To help students to know that social variables such as age, gender, social class, and 
place of residence influence the ways in which people speak and behave. 
3. To help students to become more aware of conventional behavior in common 
situations.
4. To help students to increase their knowledge of the cultural connotations of words 
and phrases in the target language. 

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Conclusion 
In conclusion, culture teaching should allow learners to increase their knowledge of 
the target culture in terms of people’s way of life, values, attitudes, and beliefs, and 
how these manifests themselves or are couched in linguistic categories and forms. In 
EFL or ESL classroom the students should be taught English with the culture 
associated with it so that the students can acquire the target language with cultural 
background. The role of culture that it plays in teaching and learning of English as a 
foreign/ second language can’t be avoided while designing course for EFL/ ESL 
students and in the class room situations. The teachers should keep in mind the 
importance of culture and must have a prior knowledge of the cultural knowledge of 
the chapter or lesson he is going to teach the students. By way of conclusion, we should 
reiterate the main premise of the present study: the teaching of culture should become 
an integral part of foreign language instruction. It is worth mentioning that there are 
various ways of integrating cultural elements into teaching process. Most EFL teachers 
are aware of applying different techniques in their own classes which they found both 
useful and motivating for learners to know about the target language culture.