Cultural Awareness in English Language Teaching

The study highlights the significance of integrating cultural approach into the foreign language teaching process.Culturalization of education has become one of the most urgent problems of education and can be tackled on the basis of respect of universal values, cultural pluralism, dialogue of cultures; social, cultural and humanitarian diversity esteem and concurrently awareness of strength in the unity of this diversity.Cultural approach expands research and practical application frameworks, provides a panoramic, multifaceted view and a polysystemic explanation of the essence of cultural problems, values and components of modern education.It is the cultural approach that puts a person at the pedestal, considering the individual capable of cherishing divergence and at the same time sustaining personal determination in any culture.The application of cultural approach in teaching English as a foreign language creates a favorable environment in which linguistic competence is an inseparable component of culture studies and vice versa.The key aspects of this approach in the learning process are: immersion in the cultural environment, intercultural communication, cultural projects, linguistic analysis with a cultural emphasis.The main accent is laid on the practical application of cultural approach in the study of a foreign language, with the emphasis on the compulsion to comprehend cultural aspects of speech and behavior.The study analyzes miscellaneous methods and strategies that contribute to better understanding, comprehension and implementation of cultural features in foreign language teaching and highlights the importance of cultural dialogue command and global thinking skills in the modern world.The eminence of practical approach usage in foreign language teaching, which promotes a deeper understanding and respect for diverse cultures, with the application of authentic, relevant materials, beneficial for the development of intercultural communication skills, is strongly emphasized.This approach includes language acquisition via the apprehension of culture codes, mentality peculiarities as well as people's values, customs and traditions of the language under study and also encourages critical analysis and creative application of the acquired knowledge.Penetration into the material can be achieved through the analysis of works of Věda a perspektivy № 2(33) 2024