700 Reasons: Reason #51

Reason: 51
Learners’ heightened awareness, not only of other languages, cultures and peoples but also of themselves as cultural beings is a major contribution of language teaching to their education
Reference:
Byram, M. (1997) "Cultural awareness" as vocabulary learning’ in the Language Learning Journal, No. 16, pp. 51-57
Related Keywords:
Education Studies, Intercultural competence, Teaching