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= = =**Reference **= = = Hwang, C. (2005). Effective EFL education through popular authentic materials. //Asian EFL Journal, 7 //(1), pp.1-12.

Within this article the author expressed the big importance of the use of authentic materials in the classroom. This research was carried out in Taiwan; the author mentioned that Taiwanese teachers are recognized because they are for their ability in teaching grammar rules. However, by teaching only grammar students, learn the second language (L2) decontextualized. Although, by the use of authentic material students are able to acquire the language in a real context since students have the opportunity to acquire the language in a natural way. The author pointed out that a really good reason to introduce authentic material in the classroom is that students easily get hooked with the authentic material since this is created for social purposes. For that reason, the author explained one method to increase the use of authentic materials in the classroom the natural communication task. According to the author this method has been defined by Krashen, Dulay, and Burt (1982) in which the main purpose is to encourage students to express an idea or opinion about any topic by using the grammar rules subconsciously. Throughout the reading the author proposed variety of authentic material such as magazines, news papers, short stories, TV shows, MSN videos, Behind the scenes shows__,__ or selected films. Finally, the author stated that when students produce the language in a meaningful way, they become responsible of their own learning.

As a teacher of a second language catch the students' attention is always a hard work. I completely agree with the author becuase by using authentic language students get really exicited and show real interest. Once, I gave to my students a poem titled "Still I rise" by Maya Angelou some of the students felt so identify with it, and some others felt so inspired. I was so great saw how students got so involved and interested about the acquisition of the language.  I would like to call to this fact subconscious learning. I think the use of the authentic material is a great idea because students think that they are learning about something else, but grammar rules. Another advantage is the access that as a teacher I have to get authentic material becuase it is easy to find since there are many sources, for example the internet. A second advantage is the accesible price, and it can be use several times for different classes or purposes. However, I am aware that for some institutions the most important aspect is to cover the curricula, even if students are not into the language, but as teacher my work is to show how easy and necessary is to acquire a second language. Also, I found so helpful the percentage that the author presented within the article, author stated 70% percent of the class should be dedicated to the introduce student into the language in a subconcious way, and the rest explaining grammar rules. Finally, I consider with the use of authentic material students also have the opportunity to realize the real use of the language outside of the classroom.

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Izadpanah, S. (2011). The review study: the place of cultural in English language teaching. //US-China Foreign Language, 9//(2), pp. 109-116

The purpose of this article is to know how English teachers perceive culture in the English Language Teaching (ELT), what is English teachers' attitude, and how teacher allocated culture of the target language in the classroom. Izadpanah mentioned some of the teachers do not pay attention to the cultural aspects because it is not included in the material they need to cover, or they do not have enough knowledge about culture. Some other teachers feel that by teaching culture in the classroom they are being part of the “linguistic imperialism”. However, in 1996 the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ( TESOL) published as its third goal in English as a Second Language (ESL) standards for Pre-K-12 students to use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways. Besides, the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages set up their standards on "knowing how, when, and why to say what to whom".Teachers of the second language should be aware not to only teach about another culture. By comparing American or British culture with students' culture, students reinforce their point of view about the world and the social issues. Finally, the implementation of the culture in ELT helps students feel more motivated about learning another language because this process includes more features like geography, history, literature, and have a full understand of it.

The students of a second language face the problem to not understand in a complete way the language because of the cultural brackground. “A fluent fool is someone who speaks a foreign language well, but does not understand the social or philosophical content of that language” (Izadapanah). Within this article I realized that as a teacher of a second language I have the chance to teach more than grammar patterns. The language by itself is empty becuase the meaning depends on several aspects like the the people's behavior, fashion trends, history, and political aspects. It is the culture or the way language is used what provides to the language a real meaning. As an English language teacher I have the chance to include more topics in the classroom like history, literature, cuisine, geography, and more, so students have the opportunity to learn more about another culture and reinforce the knowledge about students’ culture. Only one third of language teaching programs offer a course in culture. I am really interested in this topic because as a non native teacher I used to have some problems understanding some topics or talks because some of them were based on the cultural background. I will take every single opportunity to introduce students to a review about culture like holidays, important people in the United States, sayings, life style, and more. I definitely will take the risk to show them more about the culture because it helps them to have a better understanding about certain topics. My main objective as a teacher of the second language is to form citizens of the world, and by teaching them more about another culture students will develop new ideas about the world.