Language Contextualisation and Culture

It is widely accepted that putting language into context has a significant impact on learning. There may also be a strong relationship between language contextualisation and culture. In many Middle-Eastern countries, for instance, there may be many cultural barriers for English language learners. This paper attempts to explain the impact of culture in its broad sense on contextualising vocabulary and sentences in the English language. It discusses the cultural difficulties that many individuals face whilst learning English.This paper begins by outlining some definitions of culture and language contextualisation and goes on to explain the barriers individuals may confront while learning English. Examples used here are from Middle-Eastern learners who have tried to learn English as a foreign language. Finally, it has been concluded that culture does have a key role in identifying different contexts for the same linguistic term.