Abstract:

The relation between language and culture has always been an important issue for both language teachers and scholars. It is clear that learning about culture also provides lots of benefits for EFL learners to understand the target language community. The aim of this paper is to state that the importance of culture and increasing of cultural awareness will also be useful while teaching English in EFL classes. This is a literature review study. Therefore, research made from past to present on this issue were examined, necessary literature review was researched, and some suggestions were submitted. Some basic headlines of the research are: culture and cross-cultural understanding in language teaching; relationship between culture and language teaching; cross-cultural communication skills;the role of non-verbal behavior in culture and attitudes of the learners towards other cultures.

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