Integrating local culttural content based on the autoethnographie approach to Raise learners culture self awareness in EFL glasses

Abstract EN

Many researchers agree ©١١ the importanee of teaching the foreign culture when teaching a foreign language.

In intereultural education, teaching culture in a foreign language classroom is not restricted to the foreign culture.

The local culture should also be targeted to develop a high level of cultural self-awareness.

The present research paper aims at demonstrating how teachers can associate the foreign language to learners personal experiences through the use of an autoethnographic approach to explore the local culture and develop learners cultural self-awareness.

A ؟uestionnaire has been administered to sixteen teachers of oral expression, written expression and creative writing at Batna 2 University to colleet data about their perceptions and attitudes toward؟ the role of the uto^hnographic approach in developing learners understanding of their cultural selves.

The results reveal that teachers assert that autoethnography is an appr©pr؛atc approach that introduces the local cultural content in order to inerease learners cultural self-awareness