Interculturality and foreignness in DaF textbooks used by Austrian and Iranian language institutions
Volume 36, Issue 1, July 2023, Pages 131-152
https://doi.org/10.22034/spektrum.2023.184278
Sonja Anwar, Vanessa Schweiger
Abstrakt What will be discussed in the upcoming article will be the analysis of textbooks from an intercultural perspective. Learning a foreign language is not only communicating in that language, cultural understanding and confrontation is one of the important topics in the field of foreign language learning in today's world. Examining the stereotypes presented in the texts and images of the German language teaching books about one's own culture as the destination country and other countries as the origin country is another topic discussed in this article. Cultural communication and its correct and non-objective presentation will be an important tool and competence in learning and teaching foreign languages, which will help to remove extreme, incorrect, and unrealistic perceptions of the culture of the destination country and other countries involved in teaching and learning its language. Presentation of cultural themes in textbooks should serve to provide a true and uncondescending image of cultural, national, and religious diversity in today's world.
