To sum up, culture classes have a humanizing and a motivating effect on the language
learner and the learning process. They help learners observe similarities and differences
among various cultural groups. Today, most of L2 students around the world live in a
monolingual and monocultural environment. Consequently, they become culture-bound
individuals who tend to make premature and inappropriate value judgments about their as
well as others’ cultural characteristics. This can lead them to consider others whose language
they may be trying to learn as very peculiar and even ill-mannered, which, in turn, plays a
demotivating role in their language learning process.