Integrating culture in teaching ESP via the LanGuide mobile application

Abstract

The present paper aims at describing the uncharacteristic illustration of working with the cultural element when teaching a foreign language against the background of the classicised approaches in this respect, in the context of the LanGuide project, whose objectives are to provide the users with a mobile application for learning and testing foreign languages. The approach tackled by the authors of the exercises, who are also the authors of the present study, combines two aspects from the traditional methodologies i.e., the inclusion of host-country cultural items in tasks devised in and for the English language, in order to meet the requirements and goals of the LanGuide project. Thus, students, teachers and administrative staff members involved in Erasmus+ mobility who need to learn their English language knowledge in the fields of mobility, administration, IT, and/or academic may find useful cultural elements of the countries they will visit while polishing their skills for English.