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Abstract
Culture is a very broad, intricate network of complexities. When the Council of Europe produced a list of learner competencies useful to know a language, it revealed that to know a language, in addition to grammatical competence, the learner, who aims to be culturally competent, needs socio-linguistic competence, socio-cultural and inter-cultural knowledge. Any cultural knowledge means extensive knowledge of that culture.
The role of culture in the second language learning is an area of emerging research. Similarly the Second Culture Acquisition (SCA) has attracted interest in the linguistic pedagogy. Its role and limitations are presented in this paper with the belief that a learner inherently has previous cultural knowledge of his or her own.