KNOWLEDGE OF “CULTURE” ENHANCES SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING ABILITY
Keywords:
language, culture, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Berlin and kay study, communicative teaching, linguistic relativityAbstract
My motivation for writing on this topic is the classroom sessions of Spanish learning language. It’s correctly said that experience gives you the knowledge, hence, with my experience, I am going to talk about how the knowledge of culture helps to learn a second language. Culture and language are two sides of a same coin which go together hand in hand be it anthropology, linguistics or psychology. Learning a language at an older age means that you acquire some culture of that place which goes with it. It is very difficult to learn a language without any knowledge of culture. Interest in culture makes language learning easy and living within that culture makes it even easier. Most of the countries have one language which means they have one culture. Countries with two languages have two cultures, Belgium is an example. I talked about how Cultures shape the thoughts and thoughts are expressed in languages.
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