Abstract
In this paper we present a case for integrating communication and culture in team teaching, since we believe that promoting the integration between communicative language teaching (CLT), culture teaching and team teaching, the three major streams in current English language teaching (ELT) in Japan, will increase the potential of each stream for attaining the general objective of our ELT, i.e., developing cross-cultural communicative competence in English. First, we will discuss the strategy for integration between CLT and culture teaching, and then between team teaching and culture teaching, and finally between CLT and culture teaching. We will also report on the experimental lesson we conducted in order to realize the integration of communication and culture in team teaching.
