Students’ Perceptions about Cultural Imposition in the Context of L2 Literary Texts’ Reading.

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate students’ perception about the effect of cultural imposition on their L2 literary texts reading and understanding. Actually, it attempts to shed light on the influence of both the target culture and the native culture on students’ reading comprehension. Additionally, the current study intends to highlight the importance of culture teaching as a key to improve students’ cultural understanding. Moreover, this study tries to reveal reading comprehension difficulties and obstacles encountered by students. It also focuses on the significant role of literary texts reading to develop students’ cultural awareness. To achieve these goals, a case of third year students of English at Mila university was conducted. The results indicate that the majority of students agree with the integration of FL culture knowledge in EFL classes as well as a huge number of students claimed that FL culture affects their literary texts reading comprehension. Therefore, the results obtained from the students’ questionnaire provide answers to the research questions. At the end of this work, some recommendations were made for the sake of enhancing EFL students’ cultural awareness and improving their learning of the Foreign language as a whole.