Advantages And Disadvantages Of Learning English As A Foreign Language

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Since each individual is born in a special cultural context which scores in acquiring its different spheres in life, in a teaching learning process the student should tackle the main squares of English as a foreign language. In general terms, culture may be defined as a set of beliefs, values, religions, sanction and doctrines accepted by most members in a social community. During the process of learning a foreign language, learning some crucial cultural factors are notified, earnestly hindering the efficacious learning process, and mainly known as cultural obstacles. Effective language learning should be assigned among different cultures' stratum if not it will undoubtedly spoil the trumpet challenge, due to different constraints of thinking modes, epistemological beliefs, and temporal perceptions, and illustrate their spectrums of variability as they might be exhibited in learning English …show more content…

The first is the honeymoon period, next is the culture shock period. Third is a long period of slow recovery.The fourth element is the feeling of anomie .The learner thus has a perceived social distance within cultures. Brown claims that this usually occurs early in the third stage of acculturation(p.159), as the learner is starting to recover from culture shock,so is mainly associated with the beginnings of mastery of the learner's foreign language. Therefore the learner is capable enough to tackle the new language that would acutely aware of the culture distant views, or different, from the own native culture but it would be obvious how far the learner is from the natives of the new culture. But contrary to the cohesiveness through using these stages to acquire a foreign language , the growing need for educational access leads students rightly to demand culturally adaptive learning experiences that allow a full development of the new language.As noted by Schein (1990), culture is manifested at different layers of

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