NEW ENGLISH FILE KİTAPLARININ KÜLTÜR ÖĞRETİMİ AÇISINDAN ELEŞTİREL DEĞERLENDİRMESİ

A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF NEW ENGLISH FILE SERIES IN TERMS OF CULTURE TEACHING

Teaching culture as a part of language classes has ingreasingly become prevelant. The present study has tried to reveal the teachers’ and the students’ views on teaching and learning “culture” through English language coursebooks. In order to gather data, interviews have been conducted with 15 English instructors and 35 students in the Preparatory School of Foreign Languages at Namık Kemal University. The perspectives of teachers and students are hoped to be very effective in increasing awareness regarding culture teaching and developing intercultural competence by means of coursebooks