Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes Towards the Teaching and Learning of the American Culture: The Case of Junior Students in the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi- Ouzou.
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Date
2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The present issue seeks to identify the attitudes of both American civilization teachers and
junior students towards the teaching and learning of the American culture in the department
of English at MMUTO. It is built around two main models of acquiring cultural knowledge,
awareness and skill; these frameworks were advanced mainly by Pederson (2003) on Cultural
and Cross Cultural Competence and Deardorff (2006) on Intercultural Competence. This
study is exploratory in nature and uses the mixed method; since, it combines both the
quantitative and the qualitative methods to gather the data. The research instruments used in
this investigation are: a questionnaire administered to ninety students of third year, a
structured interview conducted with three teachers of the American civilization module and
six classroom observations conducted with different groups. The data gathered are analyzed
and interpreted using both the statistical package for social sciences labeled SPSS and
qualitative content analysis labeled QCA. The results obtained from these tools reveal that
both American civilization teachers and junior students in the department of English at
MMUTO demonstrate their openness, awareness and interests towards the teaching and
learning of the American culture.
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30cm ; 67p.
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American culture, Cultural and Cross Cultural Competence, Cultural knowledge Intercultural Competence.
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Didactique des Langues Etrangères