Areas of Scientific Knowledge Foreign Language Teachers ought to be Familiar with
Being a foreign language teacher, h/she should be, especially, familiar with the culture of the language. For the reason that, language learning is not just to know how to utter this language but to know how to communicate with the people of the language in certain environment. All the teachers should know how this language operates in specific circumstance. Therefore, the culture is a very important field of the language with which a foreign language teacher should be familiar.
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I agree that culture does play an important role when we are learning a foreign language. A teacher should own solid subject knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, craft knowledge as well as the culture that breeds the target language. We learn these even before we become teachers and we polish the skills and take in more knowledge after we step into the career. Being a teacher is not an easy job, right?