Although the ground of discussion on language and culture has been cleared for ages,
it is not until the 80s that the need of teaching culture in language classes is indicated,
reaching its climax in the 90s thanks to the efforts of Byram and Kramsch as mentioned
previously. For instance in the case of ELT, Pulverness (2003) asserts that due to the
undeniable growth of English as an international language cultural content as anything other
than contextual background was began to be included in language teaching programs.