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1、WhyDoWeSayThatLanguageTeachingIsInEssenceCultureTeaching? Keyunication Becauseofdifferentculturalbackground,thereusuallyaresomemisunderstandingsbetilarajorroleinsocializingthepeopleandinperpetuatingofculture,especiallyinprintform. Learningalanguage,notonlyphoics,grammar,phrasesandidiomsshouldbema
2、stered,butalsohoustbeunderstood—thatisculture.Sople,‘zhishifenzi’and‘intellectual’havedifferentmeaningsintheiroicpositionanduniversitystudentsareexcluded.Therefore,becauseofdifferentculturalbackground,ayreflectdifferentcultures,differentculturesentaildifferentlanguageexpressions,idioms,proverbsandsa
3、yingsandmetaphorsindifferentlanguage,derivedfromdifferentorigins,alsodemonstrateculturaldifferences.Thereisasaying‘xialiansanfu,dongliansanjiu’.‘Sanfu’and‘Sanjiu’areparedmerorduringthecoldestandthehottestdays.Iftheyaretranslatedintothreefuandthreenine,hople,aChinesedescribedacromingpoolas‘zhimajiang
4、zhujiaozi’tohisforeignfriendbuthisfriendcouldnotunderstandatall,becausehehasneverseen‘zhimajiang’and‘jiaozi’.Iftheemeaning.Becausecoericanhistoryandthelegendofcoantic.Ifutong’or‘niuzai’,someromanticthingmaybelost.Andthathippieistranslatedinto‘xipishi’alsocannotexpressthecharactersofAmericanyouthsatt
5、hattime.Differentgroups,oflearninglanguageistomunicate.Andinmunication,besidesusingexactlanguage,unicationsandknoustusetheappropriatelanguageinmunication.Itisclearthatpragmaticerrorsometimesismoreseriousthangrammarerror.Therefore,appropriatelanguageisveryimportantandifyouustknople,aChineseusetheemea
6、ningaybeexpressedple,theeimei’andbrothercanbeusedtocalleither‘gege’or‘didi’. Asanylinguisticsignmayhavedenotative,connotativeandiconickindsofmeanings,thesameaybeentailedustbecarefulinassumingthatbilingualdictionarydefinitionsgiveexactequivalentsinmeaningorthatdifferentlanguagesalething.Forexample,i
7、tisdifficultforedicine,etc.)yin,thefeminineornegativeprincipleinnature;yang,themasculineorpositiveprincipleinnature. Inaoflanguageteachingisteachingstudentslearnhounicativepetence,thelanguage’scultur