Culture in the EFL classroom at Universidad de La Salle: An innovation project

Abstract

Implementing cultural teaching strategies in an EFL classroom has been recently considered as a critical factor for involving students in a wider vision of learning a language. Teaching culture in a foreign language classroom makes a useful contribution to the understanding of this term and clarifies important issues about how to approach it and teach it. This article provides information about the preliminary findings of the first phase of a research project carried out with English teachers at Universidad de La Salle in order to diagnose the conception of culture, current teaching strategies and materials teachers are using to address culture in their practices.