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Interpreting an ELT Course: Perspectives and Goals of Interweaving Teaching of
Culture and Teaching of Language Expressed by L2 English Language Instructor

Sarat Kumar Doley, Ph.D.

Abstract

The primary aim of the paper is to present an analysis of the perspectives of an English as an L2 instructor on an advanced-level English as Second Language (ESL) course. This ESL course attempted at an integration of the teaching of culture with the teaching of language. A study was conducted on this course to explore the opportunities and the process of culture learning in classroom discourse. The data for this paper is taken from this study. To be more specific, this paper attempts at an analysis of the opinions, goals, perspectives of the instructor in relation to this advanced ESL course.

Keywords: Assam, Northeast India, Culture Teaching, Pedagogy, SLA, ELT

1. Introduction
B.A. 1st Semester Alternative English

The setting of the study is the first descriptive code of the situational context of the speech event first proposed by Hymes (1974) and later defined by Kramsch (1993). As far as the course investigated in this paper is concerned, it was advanced-level English as an L2 course in North Lakhimpur College, an Autonomous college affiliated to Dibrugarh University in the northern region of upper Assam of North East India.

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Sarat Kumar Doley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English and Foreign Languages
Tezpur University
Assam
India
dolesar@tezu.ernet.in

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