The Role of Culture in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

English language being widespread with it global impact serves as an international mean for communication among people from diverse backgrounds. In order to learn English, as a foreign language, it is suggested that culture as a crucial component should be included in the process of language teaching and learning. This is as a result of the fact that language and culture are two elements that are closely interrelated. Another important factor is that learning a language does not signify having a great command of its vocabulary, grammar, and phonology only, but also to learn the language within cultural framework. Thus, in this paper it will be discussed the role of learning the culture of the target language and the important aspects that can be integrated in such environment. Specifically, this paper will give an overview of the teacher’s role in developing cultural competence as well as suggest strategies that can be integrated in teaching culture in English language classroom