Language, Cultural Unity, Society, and Politics in the Context of Language Teaching, Learning, and Policy

Ahmet Erdost Yastıbaş

Abstract


Language, cultural unity, society, and politics are closely related terms and have effects on one another. They form an important part of people because of being directly related to people’s forming societies and cultures, behaviors, communication ways, and understanding the world. Consequently, they are key factors to determine language teaching, learning, and policy. Though there are different studies on this issue, there is not a direct literature review study that combines each of them and evaluates their effects on each other. Therefore, the present study aimed to explain the relationship between them in order to make language teaching, learning, and policy more effective. It first mentioned the relation between culture and language. Second, it indicated how cultural unity and society are connected and related to language. Then, it ended up with the evaluation of the impact of politics on language, cultural unity, and society.


Keywords


Language, cultural unity, society, and politics

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