An investigation into the students' attitudes towards the cultural contents in the textbook New Headway Pre-Intermediate at Ho Chi Minh city University of Industry Based in Thanh Hoa

Tóm tắt An investigation into the students' attitudes towards the cultural contents in the textbook New Headway Pre-Intermediate at Ho Chi Minh city University of Industry Based in Thanh Hoa: ...more. A great advantage of the course book is that it gives not only information and knowledge about the target culture but also other foreign cultures. Learners are given an opportunity to deal with various cultural issues. The aim is to develop an understanding of English countries in genera... expressing ideas because they lacked knowledge about the culture. It was difficult for 12% because they had not any visual illustrations. Only 8% said that they had no time to acquire cultural knowledge. 3.2. Interviews with students After gathering information from the survey questionnaire...ure and make a comparison between English speaking cultures and their native culture. For example, after giving instructions about norm of driving of British, the teacher asks students to relate to Vietnamese‟s. Or what will you take when you are invited to someone‟s home if you are in Britain...