英语毕业论文 文化背景知识和英语教学

Cultural Background Knowledge and English Teaching

Thesis statement: Culture plays a very important role in English teaching.

I. Introduction

II. Language and culture A. What is culture? B. What is language?

C. The Relationship between Language and Culture

III. The importance of cultural background knowledge in English teaching A. Necessity of cultural background knowledge in listening comprehension B. Necessity of cultural background knowledge in oral English C. Necessity of cultural background knowledge in reading

D. Necessity of cultural background knowledge in writing and translation IV. How to teach Culture background knowledge in the English Classroom A. Situation method B. Special topic method C. Comparison method

D. Combination with extracurricular activities E. Explanation method V. Conclusion

Abstract: For a long time, English teaching is accustomed to the teaching way, which only emphasizes on the grammar and language norm. This, to some degree, prevents the teaching and the learning from going step further. This paper expounds the connotation of culture background knowledge and language, points out the necessity of teaching the cultural background knowledge in English teaching and raises some important teaching methods of cultural background knowledge in the English Classroom.

Key-words: cultural background knowledge, English teaching, communicative competence

Cultural Background Knowledge and English Teaching

I. Introduction

In teaching English as a foreign language, the importance of teaching culture has been widely recognized. However how to teach culture in foreign language education is a problem faced by language educators all over the world. In the present dissertation , the concerning linguistic theories and various ways of teaching foreign culture in the English classroom will be surveyed and studied in the light of Chinese situation . The present dissertation stresses that culture teaching is very essential in the English language education. The teaching of language and the teaching of culture are of the same importance in the English classroom.

Language and culture are closely related. In foreign language education, the definition of culture teaching should include all the human achievements of civilization and the ways of life and the different habits of people. Culture differences are reflected in languages and communicative activities. Furthermore it makes great difference in communication whether learners can understand or know the cultural differences, cultural rules, and even the cultural taboos.

However , in traditional approaches to language teaching , the aims of a language teaching course are very often defined with reference to the four skills important a teaching target as the above mentioned language skills .Because of the lack of cultural knowledge; students often make cultural mistakes when they communicate with native speakers.

From years of our experience in studying English, We gradually realize the importance of culture teaching to Chinese students. English teaching should be aimed at developing students’ communicative competence so that they would be able to communicate freely and proper with native speakers of English in various social situations. If they don’t grasp and know the historical culture, customs, habits and behavioral patterns, they won’t be able to use and understand the language correctly. Language should be taught in culture. The two are of the same importance.

II. Language and Culture A. What is culture

“Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.” (Hofstede, 1991:7)The word

“culture”has many meanings. For example, we some times say that people who know about art, music, and literature are cultured. However, the word culture has a different meaning for anthropologist (people who study humankind). To an anthropologist the word culture means all the ways in which a group of people act, dress, think, and feel.

People have to learn the cultural ways of their community: they are not something that the people in the group are born with.

Instinctive behavior, on the other hand, is a pattern of behavior that an animal is born with. Spiders spinning their webs are an example of instinctive behavior. The mother spider does not teach her babies how to spin webs. (In fact, she is not even there when they are born.) They know how to do it when they are born. This is what we mean by instinctive behavior.

As humans, we learn some of the ways of our culture by being taught by our teachers or parents. We learn more of the ways of our culture by growing up in it. We see how other people in our culture do things, and we do them the same way. We even learn how to think and feel in this way.

All human beings have certain basic needs, such as eating, drinking, keeping warm and dry, and so on. However, the way in which they take care of there needs depends on the culture in which they grow up. All culture s have ways of eating,

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