Language: a ‘mirror’ of the culture and its application English language teaching

Hartono Hartono; Suparto Suparto; Ahdi Hassan

doi:10.21744/lingcure.v5n1.835

Authors

Hartono Muhammadiyah University of Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Suparto
soeparto@umm.ac.id
Muhammadiyah University of Malang, East Java, Indonesia
Ahdi Hassan Plcorpora, Islamabad, Pakistan

Keywords:

cross-culture understanding, cultural sensitivity, culture, English for specific purposes, grammatical categories, grammatical competence, linguistic features, linguistic principle

Abstract

This article is intended to highlight the linguistic principle proposed by anthropological linguists, “Language is a mirror of the culture.” The purpose of study attempts to explore foreign language teaching and learning from the perspective of language shapes thought and to improve language learning through a cross a cross-cultural communication. The first part of this article, the linguistic principle, is reflected in the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis or the Whorfian hypothesis briefly highlighted. Second part focuses on the practical use of the Whorfian hypothesis for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL), especially cross culture understanding (CCU) and the English teaching for specific purposes (ESP).

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