Einstein International Journal Organization(EIJO)

ABSTRACT 

This paper explores that for learning a language, interrelationship between language and culture must be needed. Language is more than culture and culture is more than language. The paper discusses especially the relationship between the language used for schooling and the content of the learning material and of school culture itself. Often textbooks for children in developing countries are written and published abroad in a foreign language and are adopted for use without any modification. Sometimes one may find learning material in local languages which is just direct translations of curriculum material made abroad, normally in excolonizing countries and with content from a foreign culture. The paper also discusses the model whereby the content of curriculum material is local but the language used is the excolonial language. There are e.g. also well-known authors who write from Africa and describing African culture but in the ex-colonial languages. The best model would be to have learning content and texts taken from the local culture written in the local language. This model is, however, seldom found.

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