Cultural Awareness in the English Language Teaching/Sensibilisation a la Culture Dans L'enseignement de la Langue Anglaise (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION As we know, people of different languages have their unique cultures. Because of cultural differences, misunderstandings may often arise when people with different cultural backgrounds communicate, although the language used in communication may be faultless. The same words or expressions may not mean the same things to different peoples. Because of cultural differences, a serious question may cause amusement or laughter; a harmless statement may cause displeasure or anger. Because of cultural differences, jokes by a native English speaker may be received with blank faces and stony silence in non-English speaking countries. Yet the same stories in the speaker's own country would leave the audiences holding their sides with laughter.