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2024 - Volume 7 - Number 2

Students’ Perceptions Towards the American Culture as They Learn English as a Foreign Language

Citlalli Aguilera
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Arts, 2024, 7(2), 33-44 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsa.0702.01033a
Received: 1 June 2024 ▪ Revised: 20 August 2024 ▪ Accepted: 20 December 2024

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Languages do not function isolated since these need their historical and cultural background. For this reason, the importance of this study relies on the analysis that the influence of a second culture has on the students’ language learning process. The problem that this investigation attempts to solve is based on the importance of the teachers’ experience in areas such as interculturality. The followed methodology consists on qualitative interviews applied to four young Mexican students from two different Universities of the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. An analysis of the results of these interviews shows that two main perspectives, positive and negative, were influenced by three main factors: (1) the preparation of the teachers; (2) the opportunity to travel to the USA; and (3) the social media algorithm. For future research implications this study will contribute to the investigation of adequate material that supports the language teaching practice that aims to consider the culture.

KEY WORDS: culture, language teaching, language learning, educational settings, cultural awareness. 

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Citlalli Aguilera, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO.

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