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Recently it is generally accepted that teaching culture is very important and even indispensible in the area of the second language education. However, the state of the art is not so satisfactory, especially in the development of teaching culture method. It is partly because of the broad concept of culture broadly used by anthropologists and partly because of the misunderstanding of the relation between language and culture among language educators. In this paper, I try to develop a teaching culture method that is applicable in the second language education. The most important strategy is to let students be anthropologists. The method employed in this paper is one called ‘componential analysis’ by ethnoscientists, more generally cognitive anthropologists. It tries to find out cultural norms and/or cultural models by analyzing terminological system in a cultural domain. The method is very useful to understand important aspects of culture in a speech community. If learners of a foreign language use the method in appropriate cultural domains, they will learn some important aspects of the culture in which the language is used.