The place of culture in Algerian ELT middle school textbooks

Abstract EN

This paper aims to increase the sensitivity of teachers of the English language at Middle school level to consider the cultural dimension in their courses.

It explores the attitudes of English language teachers towards cultural components inserted in textbooks and how they address them in class.

Investigation revealed that there was a discrepancy between the English Language Teaching curriculum and the teacher practices in the classroom.

Besides to a number of obstacles that lay behind teachers' reluctance to teach culture in general, a lack in training seems to have a share in their inability to devote the time required to deal with cultural components in EFL teaching.