چکیده مقاله
In Iran’s high schools, when students start to study in grade 7, they start English language as arequired course and student start to learn this language by using books compiled and published byIran’s ministry of education This study examines to what extent students are interested inimproving their linguistic, linguistic and cultural, and cultural knowledge 267 high school students 162 females, 105 males who were living and studying in shiraz, participated in this study 55 8% of them were studying in science, 24 7% of them in Math, and 19 4% in Humanities In order to investigate what type of knowledge Linguistic, Cultural, Linguistic and cultural students are interested to learn in EFL classrooms, a questionnaire which was based on Mackeyand Gass 2005 , Dorneyi 2003 , and Shedivy’s 2004 survey, was conducted and distributedamong learners The results of the study showed that students were more likely to acquire andimprove their linguistic knowledge rather than cultural information Moreover, they declared thatgaining cultural knowledge can have impact on improving their reading skills such as vocabularyknowledge, text comprehension and to have information about different topics Additionally, theydeclared that cultural understanding has major impact on students’ communication skills andability Further consequences and discussions are explained in the study
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نویسندگان
Parisa Badrkhani
Graduate tudent School of Foreign Languages Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch Shiraz Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Badrkhani, Parisa,1401,Learning Culture or Language: an examination of Iranian EFL Students’ conceptions of learning different cultures in high school English courses,Eleventh International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and History
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مجموعه مقالات یازدهمین کنفرانس بین المللی مطالعات زبان،ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ4 خرداد 1401