Exploring sociocultural competence and the promotion of intercultural
communication, this study aims to clearly define the concepts behind teaching
foreign language and the connections between culture and language. As foreign
language teaching continues to increasingly focus on the relationship between
culture and language, understanding the link and what it means becomes more
important. Objective and informative, this examination particularly looks at
English as a lingua franca between speakers of different languages and
cultural backgrounds from the perspectives of nonnative English speakers and
explores how that affects pedagogical approaches to teaching foreign language.
