Introduction
This paper is about language and culture and their relationship in communicative situations which may lead to miscommunication and misunderstandings in cross- cultural interaction and interchanges. We particularly address the methodologies employed to examine culture issues in the area of language teaching and learning, for analyzing and understanding the phenomena involved in such communicative interchanges from the view of the educational anthropologist. That is, interlocutors are regarded as actors following rules of which they are not consciously aware. In other words, cultural beliefs are either consciously or unconsciously forming presuppositions that are not shared by communicators from different cultures (Zhang, 2002), and the absence of the common denominator of a shared cultural background may lead to misunderstanding at the