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谈英语教学中导入文化背景知识的必要性,on the necessity of leading cultural background knowledge in english teachingcontentsabstractⅠkey wordsⅠ摘要Ⅱ关键词Ⅱintroduction1Ⅰ.the important ro...
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谈英语教学中导入文化背景知识的必要性

On the Necessity of Leading Cultural Background Knowledge in English Teaching

Contents

Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………Ⅰ
Key Words……………………………………………………………………………Ⅰ
摘要……………………………………………………………………………………Ⅱ
关键词…………………………………………………………………………………Ⅱ
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1
Ⅰ.The Important Role of Cultural Background Knowledge in English Teaching……2
A. Being Helpful to English Reading…………………………………………………2
B. Being Able to Improve the Ability of Communication……………………………3
C. Arousing the Studying Interest of Students………………………………………5
Ⅱ.The Contents of English Cultural Teaching…………………………………………8
A. Custom and Social Politeness of English Culture…………………………………8
B. The Cultural Connotation of Vocabulary…………………………………………8
C. The Situation of the Society………………………………………………………9
D. The Non-Verbal Expression………………………………………………………9
Ⅲ. Classroom-Teaching Cultural Background Knowledge……………………………9
A. Comprehending the Deep Meaning of Words Through Texts……………………9
B. Making Use of Scene Communications…………………………………………10
C. Making Use of Exercises After Class……………………………………………11
Ⅳ. Some Existing Problems and the Solutions………………………………………12
A.The Limitation of Aquiring Background Information……………………………12
B.Being Lack of Good English Atmosphere …………………………………13
C. Having No Enough Chances to Experience………………………………………13
D. The Factors of Teachers…………………………………………………………14
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………16
Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………17
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………18

Abstract

Language is a part of culture and affects culture. Some sociologists think that language is the foundation of culture. Seeing from another aspect, language is affected by culture. In a word, language and culture affect each other; if someone would like to comprehend a language, he must know of culture of that language first, at the same time, if he wants to comprehend culture, learning the language is the first step. For learning a foreign language, persons should not only master pronunciation, grammars, vocabulary and idioms, but also know how to use the language to express their thoughts, habits, and action. In fact, learning language and knowing culture can not be separated. The basic goal of foreign language teaching is to enhance and develop cross-cultural communicative ability of students. Therefore, bringing cultural background knowledge bases on a goal that is to improve cross-cultural communicative ability of students. To achieve this goal, cultural teaching in foreign language education should contain two duties: introducing cultural knowledge and developing cross-cultural communicative ability. This article elaborates emphatically the importance of cultural teaching in English teaching and gives a set of classroom-teaching methods for the purpose of ......

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