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1、HowtocarryoncultureteachingintheEnglishclassAbstract:BaseontheconceptofLately-revised“EnglishSyllabus”,theoveralllanguageabilitycanbedividedinto5parts:learningstrategies,affectandattitudes,languageskills,languageknowledge,andculturalawareness.Thisarticleanalysistheimportance
2、ofcultureawarenessintheEnglishteaching.Aftergivingsomeexamplesaboutculturedifferences,thispaperintroducesomewaystocarryoncultureteachingintheEnglishclass.KeyWords:cultureawareness;cultureteachingIntroduction:BecauseoftheinfluenceofthestructurallinguisticsteachermainlyadoptAu
3、dio-VisualMethodandGrammar-TranslationMethod,whichover-emphasizethelanguagephenomenonbutneglectthecultureknowledge.Thelately-revised“EnglishSyllabus”statesthatLanguageiscloselyrelatedtoculture,sostudent’ssensitivitytotoleranceoftheculturaldifferences,aswellastheirabilitytode
4、alwiththeseculturaldifferencesshouldbedevelopedintheEnglishteaching.Thus,howtoincreasestudents’culturalawarenessbecomesmoreandmoreimportantinEnglishteaching,anditisquiteimportantforteacherstocarryoncultureteachingappropriatelyinadditiontotheteachingoflanguageknowledge.I.TheI
5、mportantRoleCulturePlaysinELTeachingandLearningWhatisculture?OneoftheChineselinguists,ZHANGZhan-yi(1983),puttheculturalbackgroundknowledgeinforeignlanguageteachingintotwokindsaccordingtoitsfunctions.Theyareknowledgecultureandsocialintercourseculture.Knowledgeculturereferstos
6、uchculturalknowledgeconcerningacountry’spolitics,economy,education,religion,lawandculturalart.Socialintercourseculturereferstothoselinguisticandnon-linguisticfactorswhichaffecttheaccurateexpressionofinformationcausingprejudiceormisunderstandingwhentwopersonswithdifferentcult
7、uralbackgroundcommunicatewitheachother.Inrecentyears,withtheglobalizationoftheworldeconomyandthesteadyincreasinginternationalexchange,ourcountryhasbeenindesperateneedofthepeoplefamiliarwithforeignculturesandcapableofcommunicatingaccuratelyandappropriatelyintheinternationalsi
8、tuations.ItputsforwardnewrequirementsforEnglishlanguageteachinginChinesecol