An evaluation of the English cultural elements in sunrise textbook of 12th grade Dohuk Governorate as a sample Farhad Muhammed Rajab; Supervisor: Behbood Mohammadzadeh

Yazar: Katkıda bulunan(lar):Dil: İngilizce Yayın ayrıntıları:Nicosia Cyprus International University 2013Tanım: XII, 76 p. tab., pic. 30.5 cm CDİçerik türü:
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1 CHAPTER ONE
1
1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
6 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY
7 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
7 AIMS OF THE STUDY
8 PROCEDURE AND DATA COLLECTION
8 THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
8 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
9 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
9 DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS
11 CHAPTER TWO
11 LITERATURE REVIEW
11 THANASOULAS
12 SALUVEER, 2004
13 GENE AND BADA, 2005
13 TAKI,2008
14 JIANG,2010
15 DENEME,UDA AND UZUN, 2011
16 THE PLACEMENTS OF CULTURE IN THE COMMON TEACHING METHOD
16 THE GRAMMER-TRANSLATION METHOD
17 THE DIRECT METHOD
19 THE AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD
21 COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING
25 THE SUNRISE BOOK 12
26 THE STUDENT'S BOOK
26 THE ACTIVITY BOOK
26 THE TEACHER'S BOOK
28 CHAPTER THREE
28 PROCEDURE AND DATA COLLECTION
28 THE DESIGN OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE
30 THE TEACHER'S QUESTIONNAIRE
30 THE POPULATION OF THE QUESTIONNIRE
28 VALIDITY OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE
31 STATISTICAL METHOD
32 CHAPTER FOUR
32 THE RESULTS
33 Research Question 1: What does culture mean to you as a teacher of English
33 Research question 2: Are you aware of the Importance of Cuture in Foreign language teaching
33 Research question 3: Do you teach the culture(s) of English-Speaking countries in teaching English as a Foreign language for your students?
34 Research question 4: Do you suggest that is important to focus on İntegrating the Teaching of Culture with teaching of foreign languages in classes ?
35 Research question 5 :In your point of view as a teacher, do the courses(texbooks) you use at school offer enough materials for learning and discussing cultural issues?
35 Research question 6: Have you taken any tranning or workshop in teaching methods where culture i mentioned to be important in foreign teaching and learning?
35 Research question 7:What aspects of culture do you think are most important and interesting for students to learn culture?
37 Research question 8: Do you think that students would be more interested if they learn the language with having with having some background knowlege about the culture of the people speaking that language
37 Research question 9: Do you think it is also important to include cultural topics about the learner's native language culture in foreign language teaching and learning?
38 Research question 10:Which kind of sources do you use for teaching culture?
39 Research question 11: How often do you think culture issues in your English classes?
39 Research question 12: What activities do you think are ımportant to consider while teaching culture in classes?
40 Research question 13: Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English language in classes; please choose one reason behind that?
41 Research question 14: Have you attended a traning program or a workshop for high school teacher that are exactly about English Language culture?
42 Research question 15:Do you think the Thesis topic (AN EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN SUNRISE TEXTBOOK OF 12TH GRADE: DOHUK GOVERNORATE AS A SAMPLE) is interesting and improtant in developing language learning skills? )
42 DISCUTIONS OF FINDINGS
42 Research Question 1: What does culture mean to you as a teacher of English?
42 Research question 2: Are you aware of the importance of culture in foreign language teaching?
43 Research question 3: Do you teach the culture(s) of English-Speaking countries in teaching English as a foreign language for your students?
44 Research question 4: Do you suggest that it is important to focus on integrating the teaching of culture with teaching of foreign languagesin Classes?
44 Research question 5: In your point of view as a teacher, do the courses textbooks) you use at school offer enough materials for learning and discussing cultural issues?
45 Research question 6: Have you taken any traning or workshop in teaching methods where culture is mentioned to be important teaching and learning?
46 Research question 7: What aspects of culture do you think are most important and interesting for students to learn culture?
47 Research question 8: Do you think that students would be more interested if they learn the language with having some background knowlege about the culture of the people speaking that language?
47 Research question 9: Do you think it is also important to include cultural topics about the learner's native language culture in foreign language teaching and learning?
48 Research question 10: Which kind of sources do you use for teaching culture?
49 Research question 11: How often do you discuss culture issues in your English classes?
50 Research question 12:What activities do you think are important to consider while teaching culture in classes?
51 Research question 13: Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English laguage in Classes; please choose one reason behind that?
51 Research question 13 :Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English language in Classes; please choose one reason behind that?
51 Research question 14: Have you attended a training program or workshop for high school teachers that are exactly about English languages culture(s)?
52 Research Question 15: Do you think the thesis topic (AN EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN SUNRISE TEXTBOOK OF 12TH GRADE: DOHUK GOVERNORATE AS A SAMPLE) is interesting and important in developing language learning skills?
53 CHAPTER FIVE
53 CONCLUSION
55 RECOMMENDATIONS
57 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
58 REFERENCES
65 APPENDICES
Özet: 'Abstract The present study focuses on the evaluation of the English cultural elements in the new curriculum Sunrise 12, and attempts to show that culture holds an important place in foreign language education. The main aim of the study is to investigate and search this topic because in the (2004 - 2005) academic year, Iraq as an Arabian country, witnessed some changes in English language teaching and the English language programme was replaced by a new one entitled the Sunrise programme which is based on communicative approach. After six years of the adoption, this programme started with 12th grade of preparatory education. Therefore, as a preparatory school English language teacher, the researcher of the thesis thought it is important to find out to what extent the recommended teaching curriculum is being adhered to, whether the teachers are aware of cultural awareness, whether their points of view are positive or negative towards teaching culture in foreign language classes. Regarding the 12th grade, the researcher chose this grade because it's the last grade of the preparatory education; learners are expected to prepare themselves for communicative competence (CC) and they should have some background knowledge about intercultural communicative competence (ICC). In this regards the research aims at finding out; a) Whether the Iraqi teachers of English at preparatory schools are aware of the English cultural elements in the new course book (The Sunrise 12). b) Whether the Iraqi teachers of English are adequately trained and qualified for the teaching of culture or cultural elements in teaching English as foreign or second language, c) Whether the teachers' points of view towards the concept of culture and its teaching about the new course book are positive or negative. The present study falls into the following four chapters: the first chapter is about the introduction of the study, which summarizes the importance of culture teaching in foreign language education. It also offers some definitions of culture and explains some important terms. The first chapter also concentrates on the hypothesis of the study, the purpose of the study, the aims of the study, the procedure and data collection, the research questions, the significance of the study, and the limitation of the study. The second chapter of this study deals with the literature review and the place of culture in the common teaching methods, shedding light on some related previous studies that had been done before on the same topic of teaching culture, and how culture is viewed and used in each method of teaching from the starting of Grammar - Translation method in 1840 till the beginning of the 1970, the year of developing communicative language teaching. The third chapter is about the procedures and data collection on the teachers who teach the Sunrise 12 coursebook of preparatory education in the Governorate of Duhok urban areas which include Duhok centre, Akre city, the city where the researcher lives and teaches in, Bardarash, and Chira. The fourth chapter will be on the discussions, findings and results through the questionnaire which is used to achieve the aims of the study and recommendations are stated for better implementation of the English cultural elements as well as some suggestions for further studies are presented at the end. The results from the research show the following: • English language teachers are not aware of the English cultural elements while teaching the Sunrise 12 in foreign language classrooms. • English teachers\' points of view towards the teaching of English cultural elements are negative. • English language teachers are not adequately trained to be qualified to teach cultural elements in teaching the sunrise 12 coursebook. '
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'Abstract The present study focuses on the evaluation of the English cultural elements in the new curriculum Sunrise 12, and attempts to show that culture holds an important place in foreign language education. The main aim of the study is to investigate and search this topic because in the (2004 - 2005) academic year, Iraq as an Arabian country, witnessed some changes in English language teaching and the English language programme was replaced by a new one entitled the Sunrise programme which is based on communicative approach. After six years of the adoption, this programme started with 12th grade of preparatory education. Therefore, as a preparatory school English language teacher, the researcher of the thesis thought it is important to find out to what extent the recommended teaching curriculum is being adhered to, whether the teachers are aware of cultural awareness, whether their points of view are positive or negative towards teaching culture in foreign language classes. Regarding the 12th grade, the researcher chose this grade because it's the last grade of the preparatory education; learners are expected to prepare themselves for communicative competence (CC) and they should have some background knowledge about intercultural communicative competence (ICC). In this regards the research aims at finding out; a) Whether the Iraqi teachers of English at preparatory schools are aware of the English cultural elements in the new course book (The Sunrise 12). b) Whether the Iraqi teachers of English are adequately trained and qualified for the teaching of culture or cultural elements in teaching English as foreign or second language, c) Whether the teachers' points of view towards the concept of culture and its teaching about the new course book are positive or negative. The present study falls into the following four chapters: the first chapter is about the introduction of the study, which summarizes the importance of culture teaching in foreign language education. It also offers some definitions of culture and explains some important terms. The first chapter also concentrates on the hypothesis of the study, the purpose of the study, the aims of the study, the procedure and data collection, the research questions, the significance of the study, and the limitation of the study. The second chapter of this study deals with the literature review and the place of culture in the common teaching methods, shedding light on some related previous studies that had been done before on the same topic of teaching culture, and how culture is viewed and used in each method of teaching from the starting of Grammar - Translation method in 1840 till the beginning of the 1970, the year of developing communicative language teaching. The third chapter is about the procedures and data collection on the teachers who teach the Sunrise 12 coursebook of preparatory education in the Governorate of Duhok urban areas which include Duhok centre, Akre city, the city where the researcher lives and teaches in, Bardarash, and Chira. The fourth chapter will be on the discussions, findings and results through the questionnaire which is used to achieve the aims of the study and recommendations are stated for better implementation of the English cultural elements as well as some suggestions for further studies are presented at the end. The results from the research show the following: • English language teachers are not aware of the English cultural elements while teaching the Sunrise 12 in foreign language classrooms. • English teachers\' points of view towards the teaching of English cultural elements are negative. • English language teachers are not adequately trained to be qualified to teach cultural elements in teaching the sunrise 12 coursebook. '

1 CHAPTER ONE

1 INTRODUCTION

1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

6 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY

7 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY

7 AIMS OF THE STUDY

8 PROCEDURE AND DATA COLLECTION

8 THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS

8 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

9 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

9 DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS

11 CHAPTER TWO

11 LITERATURE REVIEW

11 THANASOULAS

12 SALUVEER, 2004

13 GENE AND BADA, 2005

13 TAKI,2008

14 JIANG,2010

15 DENEME,UDA AND UZUN, 2011

16 THE PLACEMENTS OF CULTURE IN THE COMMON TEACHING METHOD

16 THE GRAMMER-TRANSLATION METHOD

17 THE DIRECT METHOD

19 THE AUDIO LINGUAL METHOD

21 COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING

25 THE SUNRISE BOOK 12

26 THE STUDENT'S BOOK

26 THE ACTIVITY BOOK

26 THE TEACHER'S BOOK

28 CHAPTER THREE

28 PROCEDURE AND DATA COLLECTION

28 THE DESIGN OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE

30 THE TEACHER'S QUESTIONNAIRE

30 THE POPULATION OF THE QUESTIONNIRE

28 VALIDITY OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE

31 STATISTICAL METHOD

32 CHAPTER FOUR

32 THE RESULTS

33 Research Question 1: What does culture mean to you as a teacher of English

33 Research question 2: Are you aware of the Importance of Cuture in Foreign language teaching

33 Research question 3: Do you teach the culture(s) of English-Speaking countries in teaching English as a Foreign language for your students?

34 Research question 4: Do you suggest that is important to focus on İntegrating the Teaching of Culture with teaching of foreign languages in classes ?

35 Research question 5 :In your point of view as a teacher, do the courses(texbooks) you use at school offer enough materials for learning and discussing cultural issues?

35 Research question 6: Have you taken any tranning or workshop in teaching methods where culture i mentioned to be important in foreign teaching and learning?

35 Research question 7:What aspects of culture do you think are most important and interesting for students to learn culture?

37 Research question 8: Do you think that students would be more interested if they learn the language with having with having some background knowlege about the culture of the people speaking that language

37 Research question 9: Do you think it is also important to include cultural topics about the learner's native language culture in foreign language teaching and learning?

38 Research question 10:Which kind of sources do you use for teaching culture?

39 Research question 11: How often do you think culture issues in your English classes?

39 Research question 12: What activities do you think are ımportant to consider while teaching culture in classes?

40 Research question 13: Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English language in classes; please choose one reason behind that?

41 Research question 14: Have you attended a traning program or a workshop for high school teacher that are exactly about English Language culture?

42 Research question 15:Do you think the Thesis topic (AN EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN SUNRISE TEXTBOOK OF 12TH GRADE: DOHUK GOVERNORATE AS A SAMPLE) is interesting and improtant in developing language learning skills? )

42 DISCUTIONS OF FINDINGS

42 Research Question 1: What does culture mean to you as a teacher of English?

42 Research question 2: Are you aware of the importance of culture in foreign language teaching?

43 Research question 3: Do you teach the culture(s) of English-Speaking countries in teaching English as a foreign language for your students?

44 Research question 4: Do you suggest that it is important to focus on integrating the teaching of culture with teaching of foreign languagesin Classes?

44 Research question 5: In your point of view as a teacher, do the courses textbooks) you use at school offer enough materials for learning and discussing cultural issues?

45 Research question 6: Have you taken any traning or workshop in teaching methods where culture is mentioned to be important teaching and learning?

46 Research question 7: What aspects of culture do you think are most important and interesting for students to learn culture?

47 Research question 8: Do you think that students would be more interested if they learn the language with having some background knowlege about the culture of the people speaking that language?

47 Research question 9: Do you think it is also important to include cultural topics about the learner's native language culture in foreign language teaching and learning?

48 Research question 10: Which kind of sources do you use for teaching culture?

49 Research question 11: How often do you discuss culture issues in your English classes?

50 Research question 12:What activities do you think are important to consider while teaching culture in classes?

51 Research question 13: Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English laguage in Classes; please choose one reason behind that?

51 Research question 13 :Some teachers ignore discussing the cultural issues while teaching English language in Classes; please choose one reason behind that?

51 Research question 14: Have you attended a training program or workshop for high school teachers that are exactly about English languages culture(s)?

52 Research Question 15: Do you think the thesis topic (AN EVALUATION OF THE ENGLISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN SUNRISE TEXTBOOK OF 12TH GRADE: DOHUK GOVERNORATE AS A SAMPLE) is interesting and important in developing language learning skills?

53 CHAPTER FIVE

53 CONCLUSION

55 RECOMMENDATIONS

57 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

58 REFERENCES

65 APPENDICES

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