أفكار وآفاق
Volume 13, Numéro 2, Pages 187-204
2025-11-30
The Impact Of Cultural Exposure On Efl Learners' Identity
Authors : Ghris Sihem .
Abstract
In the context of globalisation and technological challenges, the interconnectedness between language, culture and identity has received enormous attention in different fields of research. Considering that language is the carrier of culture and an indispensable part of it, a plethora of scholars have investigated the impact of culture exposure on EFL learners’ identity aiming at unveiling some issues on the new developed identity or identities: Would they identify themselves by “who they are?” or by “who they become?”. Therefore, this paper aims to shed light on the impact of culture exposure on EFL learners’ identity. To achieve this aim, a qualitative, literature-based comparative review is adopted, based on describing and critically analysing the existing literature on the topic and focusing on different studies to deduce the new parameters of the learners’ identity shift. The results show that most studies undertaken acknowledged that injecting the cultural component into the curriculum would help the learners develop new linguistic competencies as well as cultural and social practices, while maintaining the native ones. Put differently, the EFL learners would cross the borders of culture to construct multicultural identities .Hence, these findings on EFL learners’ identity construction, reconstruction, and deconstruction may continue to generate exciting and innovative research in the future.
Keywords
culture exposure ; EFL classrooms ; identity construction ; identity shift ; identity deconstruction
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