. ACADEMIC WRITING TASK2
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic:
When we learn a language, we should also learn the cultures and lifestyles of this country.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words
Nowaday, many korean students take language courses in foreign country. In foreign nation, students in language centers can learn the cultures and lifestyles. There is an issue whether students who want to enhance language skill should learn the other things such as culture, lifestyle, or food. Some language teachers may say that those is not necessary to study language. From a long consideration, however, i recommend that students have knowledge of culture and lifestyle; those can help to study language, and language is never only words nor expression.
To begin with, the culture and the lifestyle can make students who study language easy to improve their language skill. In other words, they can reduce time for acquistion of language. According to research conducted by British Language Institute, compared with those who did not study culture, the one who study that show higher scores. Had it not been, they would spend lots of time to study languages.
Second, language is mirror of society. Languages are changed thoroughout the trent of society. In last 20 years ago, there was no internet, so there is no expression, such as ‘kkk’, ‘Who U R?’, and ‘C R’. Each word mean laught, who you are?, and see you. Like this example, many changes in language are happened in the world. However, formal language materials do not reflect these changes appropriately.
Some people say that students do not need to learn culture and lifestyle, citing that study marterials can make students using languages. But, they regard using language as being able to communicate with natives. To understand expressions, students should understand lots of thing to change a mean of the expression. However, the marterials can not afford to update these sources in timely manner.
All things considered, I would rather recommend studying the culture and the lifestyle. It is obvious that learning the culture and the lifestyle give a short way to study a language.