浅谈语言教学中文化教育.docVIP

浅谈语言教学中文化教育 　　【摘要】 语言教学与文化教学密不可分,本文从归纳文化在不同层面的多重定义入手,在深入探讨其对语言教学中听、说、读、译方面潜移默化的影响的基础上提出了语言教学中文化教育的几种有效方法,希望对其它英语教师有所裨益。 　　【关键词】语言教学、文化教育、教学策略 　　 　　On Culture Teaching in English language Teaching (ELT) 　　ZhangMei 　　【Abstract】Language teaching is closely connected with culture teaching.The paper summarizes a cluster of definitions of culture from different perspectives first and after deeply discussing the subtle influence of culture on specific components of teaching/learning practice in terms of listening, speaking, reading, and translating it proposes a series of effective culture teaching techniques. Hopefully, it is helpful to other English teachers. 　　【Key words】ELT; culture teaching; teaching techniques 　　 　　1.Introduction 　　 　　There has never been any argument among language teachers about the important role that culture plays in language learning. However, Culture is a complex and elusive concept (Bianco, 2003), thus, in ELT, the foremost thing is to make clear what culture is. Besides, the language teachers must be clear about reasons and the ways to teach culture. That is what will be discussed in the following section. 　　 　　2.What is culture? 　　 　　Culture may mean different things to different people, thus, there are almost 200 diversities in interpretation of the exact definition of the word culture to emphasize its multifaceted and multi-layered nature (Dodd, 1998). The following will be a cluster of definitions of culture from different perspectives: 　　In an abstract sense, culture is recognized as the ways of a people (Lado, 1957); a system of integrated patterns (Condon, 1973); everything that people have, think, and do as members of a society(Ferraro, 1995); learned and shared human patterns or models for living (Damen, 1987) ; the collective programming of the mind (Hofstede, 1984); the shared knowledge and schemes (Lederach, 1995). 　　From social scientists views, culture consists primarily of the symbolic, ideational, and intangi