How to carry on culture teaching in the English class 英语专业毕业论文.doc

How to carry on culture teaching in the English class Abstract: Base on the concept of Lately-revised “English Syllabus”, the overall language ability can be divided into 5 parts: learning strategies, affect and attitudes, language skills, language knowledge, and cultural awareness .This article analysis the importance of culture awareness in the English teaching. After giving some examples about culture differences, this paper introduce some ways to carry on culture teaching in the English class. Key Words: culture awareness ; culture teaching Introduction: Because of the influence of the structural linguistics teacher mainly adopt Audio-Visual Method and Grammar-Translation Method, which over-emphasize the language phenomenon but neglect the culture knowledge. The lately-revised “English Syllabus” states that Language is closely related to culture, so student’s sensitivity to tolerance of the cultural differences, as well as their ability to deal with these cultural differences should be developed in the English teaching. Thus, how to increase students’ cultural awareness becomes more and more important in English teaching, and it is quite important for teachers to carry on culture teaching appropriately in addition to the teaching of language knowledge. I. The Important Role Culture Plays in EL Teaching and Learning What is culture? One of the Chinese linguists, ZHANG Zhan-yi (1983), put the cultural background knowledge in foreign language teaching into two kinds according to its functions. They are knowledge culture and social intercourse culture. Knowledge culture refers to such cultural knowledge concerning a country’s politics, economy, education, religion, law and cultural art. Social intercourse culture refers to those linguistic and non-linguistic factors which affect the accurate expression of information causing prejudice or misunderstanding when two persons with different cultural background communicate with each other. In recent years, wi