This master’s thesis focuses on the concept of culture, specifically British culture, and how it can be taught in the ELT classroom. It explores different approaches to teaching culture and their difficulties, finally concluding that using literature can be a very effective approach. The thesis discusses why literature is important and moves on to guidelines for selecting appropriate texts. At the end of the theoretical part it explores the difficulties of cross-cultural reading of literature and suggestions on how to bridge the cultural gap. The practical part introduces the selection process of a novel for whole-class reading and the ideas behind the structure of the lessons. Finally, it presents five lesson plans and corresponding lesson materials created for the selected novel, Raven Black by Ann Cleeves.
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