Die Interkulturell bedingten verstandnisschwiderigkaiten bei literarischen texten

Misunderstanding Arising From Cultural Differences in literal Texts. Today the close relations among countries has led the knowledge of a foreign language become a crucial need. Learning a foreign language not only means learning language, but it also presents the possibility of acknowledgement of a foreign culture and values, life styles and thoughts of that language users. Particulary the literal textts, written in a foreign language, reflect the life experiences of a society by having cultural characteristics of that society they symbolize. In foreign language instruction a reader/ student who has communication through a literal text receives it depending on his/ her world schemata or culture. Meeting of two different cultures occurs in the communication between the foreign literal text and foreign language learner.If the learner doesn't know about that foreign culture, during the process of text reception, s/he may try to understand the text by his/her own schemata and cultural experiences.Thus this may cause difficulties in comprehension or even misunderstandings. In this research, the reasons of comprehension difficulties and misunderstandings and how to manage with them succesfully were quested. In the beginning it was determined by an experimental study that the reason of difficulties and misunderstandings arouse from the students unawareness of the foreign culture.Afterwards with the aim to compensate for the lack of cultural knowledge that makes students misunderstand or not understand the literal text, cultural knowledge related to the text was given to the students by a communicative-explanatary method. As a conclusion of this method application, by the statistical measures done, it was seen that this method increases success of learners in literal text comprehension. Under the light of these findings it is emphasized that this method has a crucial function in literal text comprehension and so that it is required to use this method in foreign instruction.