• Sedigheh Haghjou

  Author

Incorporating socio-cultural norms and awareness into foreign language classes can
enhance proficiency of the language learners in utilizing the language appropriate to the
context. Through the study of related journals, books, and sites, the author applied descriptiveanalytical
method to consider ways of incorporating required socio-cultural norms into the
class. Also, Critical Linguistics was applied to provide critical awareness of socio-cultural
norms. It shows that teaching of a foreign language isn’t to provide students with syntactic
structures or lexis, but should mainly concentrate on the ways of incorporating cultural elements
which are inseparable from language. So the author discloses the fact that to communicate
effectively in foreign language classes requires more than just linguistic competence and that is
socio-cultural competence which creates understanding and respect to divergent culture and
promotes accuracy and fluency in classes. The author suggests that if language teachers aim to
teach cultural aspect of the target language to create empathy with the socio-cultural norms of
the community and provide consciousness of the native language norms, language learning can
be facilitated very easily.

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