An Investigation of the Effect of Integrating the Foreign Language Culture on the Mother Cultural Identity of Learners of English as a Foreign Language.

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the effect of integrating the foreign language culture on the mother cultural identity of the learners of English as a foreign language at the department of English at Guelma University. It was conducted with the attempt to highlight the relationship between integrating cultural insights of the English language and the EFL learners’ home cultural identity reconstruction along a descriptive study. Questionnaire’s use on the sample of third year LMD students enrolled for the academic year 2017-2018 revealed not only a strong interrelationship between the study’s variables, but furthermore, evoked the positive impact of the foreign language culture on the students’ already constructed original identity. On the basis of the literature reading and the field work results, some pedagogical implications have been drawn in order to help teachers, learners, and curriculum makers recognize the importance of introducing the mother culture elements through the English language in the English language teaching context in Algeria, in order to face any negative effect of the foreign language culture on learners’ mother cultural identity.