英語教學中的文化意識

論文編號:YY713  論文字數:6136.頁數:18

Culture Consciousness in English Teaching
ABSTRACT

 Language and culture are closely related with each other. College English learning is in fact cultural learning. In order to learn a foreign language well, one has to understand the target language culture, especially the differences between our native culture and target language culture. Therefore, college English teaching is not just training in such basic skills as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating. Most important of all is to conduct cultural teaching so as to enable students to understand the target language cultural background and enhance their cross-cultural awareness. Developing college students’ cross-cultural awareness will help them to have a better mastery and use of English and realize that learning English is also learning culture at the same time. Only in this way can they master the language in the real sense.    With the economic and social development, the communication between China and the outside world is increasingly frequent. People have more opportunities to contact foreign cultures. Culture teaching is playing an important role in college English teaching. The study focuses on the cultivation of college students’ cultural awareness in college English teaching and aims at explaining how to effectively promote the target culture learning in a non-native context like China through adopting various ways of cultivating college students’ cultural awareness.

Keywords：culture  cultural consciousness  culture teaching
 
英語教學中的文化意識
摘  要

 語言與文化密切相關，大學英語學習實際上是一種文化學習，要學好英語就必須了解其文化，尤其要熟悉本族語與英語文化之間的差異。因此，大學英語教學不僅是培養聽、說、讀、寫、譯等基本技能，更重要的是要進行文化教學，讓學生了解所學語言的文化背景，培養跨文化意識。培養學生跨文化意識有助于學生更好地掌握和運用英語，使他們認識到英語學習同時也是文化學習，只有這樣才能真正掌握英語這門語言。    隨著經濟和社會的發展，我國和世界的交流日益頻繁，人們有了更多的機會接觸外國文化，文化教學在外語教育中的重要性逐漸顯現出來。本研究把關注的焦點放在大學英語教學中文化意識的培養之上，目的是詮釋如何在缺乏英語環境的情況下通過在教學中采用不同的方法以行之有效地促進中國大學生對英語及其文化的學習。

關鍵詞：文化 文化意識 文化教學

CONTENTS

 ABSTRACT I
摘  要 II
1  Introduction 1
2  The Relationship between Language and Culture 2
2.1 Language-and-Culture 2
2.2 Language to Learn Culture 2
2.3 Language to Participate in the Cultural Experience 3
3  English Teaching and Culture Awareness of the Classroom 5
3.1 Schools and Classrooms as Communicative Environment 5
3.2 Culture Consciousness and English teaching 6
4  Current Situation of English Teaching in China 7
4.1 Current situation 7
4.2 Culture teaching in China 7
5  Suggestions for Cultivating Cultural Consciousness 10
5.1 Education Policy and Curriculum Adjustment 10
5.2 Syllabus Design 10
5.3 Cultural Consciousness Cultivation at Curricular Stage 11
5.4 What to teach 11
6  Conclusion 13
References 14
Acknowledgements 15