This study examined how Chinese university English as a foreign language (EFL) students engaged in a language massive open online course (LMOOC) on source culture to meet their learning needs. Learning analytics data from 818 course participants revealed a funnel-shaped pattern of participation, with a significant decline in video-watching and…

Purpose: Most research on tandem language learning (TLL) has involved university contexts . To contribute to the paucity of research in school settings, this study focuses on a high school teacher's attempt at setting up an ESL-FSL exchange in a Canadian intranational context. To better understand the complexity of innovation, the process is…

Nowadays, English has been considered as an International language or a Lingua Franca as a result of its widespread use among non-native speakers. English now is spoken by various people with different languages and diverse cultures. Thus, learners need to know the culture of different people of various countries. As stated by Cortazzi, M., &…

Purpose: This brief report demonstrates how collaborative podcast series project to teach cultural content in English language classroom is design and implemented. This paper aims not only to facilitate speaking practice but also to build students' cultural awareness, exercise creativity, promote critical thinking and foster learning…

This study examines the perceptions of Japanese primary school students during a synchronous cross-cultural virtual exchange (VE) with Australian peers. The participants included 152 sixth-grade Japanese students and 130 Australian students (63 in fifth grade and 67 in sixth grade). Using Google Meet, students shared information about their…

Background/purpose: Incorporating students' native cultural knowledge into language instruction can enhance learning and support cultural sustainability. The study aims to explore the perspectives of junior high school students with different personality backgrounds on the benefits of a culturally responsive, student-centered approach that…

This paper is the first attempt to present the implementation results of the language-learning tutorial based on intercultural and communicative approaches in a classical university in Ukraine. The authors present a new tutorial method for teaching English at Departments of the Far East Languages in Classical Universities of Ukraine. This method…

One of the advantages of teaching culture is to display different cultural frames to develop language awareness and pragmatic usage. Culture is a phenomenon to be searched deeply in terms of English language teaching on the grounds of a scarce number of studies on it. Accordingly, this study examines pre-service and novice EFL teachers' perception…

Thanks to technological advances, migration, and globalization, English has become the language of internationalization. Therefore, many schools prioritized learning English to ensure and sustain international communication. However, in order to communicate well with individuals all around the world, bestowing English language learners with…

This paper reports on a multiple case study into the pedagogic beliefs and practices of Indonesian teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) regarding the teaching and learning of culture and interculturality in high-school EFL classrooms. Teachers from local general, vocational, and Islamic high-schools participated in the study. Data were…

The present study employed virtual reality technology to develop online learning environments that facilitated student cultural and self-directed learning. Junior high school participants engaged in creating virtual tours, sharing them with peers online, and implementing self-directed learning strategies. A one-group posttest-only design was…

This study stands at the crossroads of folklorization, ethnicity, and curriculum. It seeks to criticize how the institutionalized production of knowledge about Amazigh folklore in Morocco has contributed to the creation and maintenance of a closed system of linguistic options for representing Amazigh ethnic groups through "folklorizing"…

This study investigates the transfer of communication skills acquired in a Lebanese university. All eight professors teaching in the four courses in the Cultural Studies program that are taught in English were interviewed to elicit their beliefs and perceptions about students' communicative skill in English and about their responsibility as…

In the present study, we examined whether students' academic success in courses devoted to Arabic and Islamic culture changed when the familiar face-to-face delivery format (before the COVID-19 pandemic) was discarded in favor of an online synchronous delivery format (during the pandemic). The final class grades of students enrolled in one of four…

It is well-known that foreign language education is a cultural education in a sense; therefore, it is of great importance for language learners to learn native and international cultural elements along with the target culture items and to develop their communication skills at the international level. The current study explores what target, native,…