LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Pakistani Culture and Learning of English

Muhammad Iqbal Butt, Ph.D.
Muhammad Waleed Butt

Abstract

Language is at the centre of human life. It gains more importance when we talk about a language with reference to a particular culture in which it is spoken. A language is the transmitter of a culture because it is through language that a culture is expressed and transmitted. Learning language in the native culture is different from learning language in a non-native culture. In this article the researchers have discussed the issues of language, culture, the relationship between language and culture, bi/multilingualism and bi/multilingual cultures and some problems relating to the learning of English language in Pakistani culture. In Pakistan, the learners have to learn English as a second language, so they have to learn it formally in schools and colleges. Therefore, learning English has been simultaneously associated with teaching of English.

Definitions of Culture

Culture is an ambiguous and highly complex term that is really hard to define. Generally speaking culture can be defined as the socially required knowledge that someone has by being a member of a particular society (Hudson, 1980:74).

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Muhammad Iqbal Butt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Govt. Zamindar Postgraduate College
Gujrat
Pakistan
profib@hotmail.com

Muhammad Waleed Butt
waleed_butt92@yahoo.com
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