The purpose of this final thesis is to define a broad concept of culture, as well as its role in teaching English as a foreign language, and show its importance in developing learners’ intercultural competence. The attitudes of official documents to teaching culture, along with the methods focused on raising cultural awareness are presented in the theoretical part. The aim of this study was to see the level of stereotypes present among English language learners along with their openness towards the native speakers of English. The participants were pupils of two seventh grades from a primary school in Bjelovar. There were 42 participants, of whom 23 boys and 19 girls. The goal was to expose the experimental group to the culture lessons created with an emphasis on raising cultural awareness and with methods suggested by specialists to see their impact on learners’ changes in attitude. On the other hand, the culture lessons in the control group relied on coursebook material. The analysis of the results after the culture lessons revealed both groups displaying fewer stereotypes and more openness towards native speakers of English, but the difference failed to show statistically significant change, which could be explained by the short time span between filling in the questionnaires and the number of only two culture lessons held in both groups. However, the survey stresses the need to raise cultural awareness in teaching English as a foreign language and focus on helping students to overcome potential stereotypes.