The Impact of Culture-based Content on EFL Learners’ Communicative Competence

Abstract

The present study attempts to inquire into the impact of culture-based content on EFL learners’ communicative competence. This investigation aims at exploring learners’ and teachers’ perceptions, views, and attitudes vis-à-vis the integration of a culture-based content into EFL classrooms. It thereby hypothesizes that “If a culture-based content is adequately implemented into EFL classrooms, it would have an impact on learners' communicative competence”. To achieve the aforementioned aim, the present research adopts the descriptive method. The latter is manifested through the instrumentality of a questionnaire and an interview which, in turn, would allow for the obtainment of quantitative and qualitative data. For which purpose, 108 Third Year LMD students and fourteen (14) English teachers from the Department of English, 8 Mai 1945 University-Guelma, are randomly selected as the sample. The derived results unveil a positive relationship between the two main variables which confirms the hypothesis set at the beginning of the research. Therefore, the revision of the status of culture in EFL classrooms becomes one of the primary goals that policymakers should take into serious account.