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learners to get a general view of the two cultures. As a result, learners unconsciously internalize and distinguish
the cultural elements in the texts.
Moreover, culture is subject to changes as language is. Overtime it changes and transforms into a new form.
People live the new life with new forms. So textbooks should be inclusive of contemporary cultures as well.
Conclusion
As a conclusion, communication is more than exchange of information and sending message. Learning
foreign languages, if done under the guidance of an up-to-date teacher, is a long-term process that opens the
richness of other ways of looking at the world and human communication. Therefore, the integration of language
and culture learning by using the language as a medium for the continuing socialization of students in a process
which is not intended to imitate and replicate the socialization of non-native speaker teachers ,but rather to
developed students’ cultural competence from its existing stage by changing it into intercultural competence. As
a matter of fact, a true representation of a culture and people depends on the writers’ cultural awareness and their
philosophy of education..
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