REFLECTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THINK ABOUT CULTURE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS

ABSTRACT

This article provides a perspective to think about and apply culture contents in the teaching and learning of a foreign language. To do this, we present our theoretical assumptions about the relationship between language and culture as a binomial and the link between interculturality and education. Then, we study the teaching of topics related to culture and society in a course that is part of a Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language university program. We describe the theory and methodology used by the teachers of this course in conceiving the topics to be taught, emphasizing the need to think about language and culture in an articulated way in the teaching-learning of Portuguese as a foreign language. We also give some examples of how to implement this perspective, in order to reflect on it and promote its consideration in the different educational settings where foreign languages are taught.

Keywords:
Culture; foreign language; portuguese