大学生用英语表达中国文化能力调查研究——以台州学院为例.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT In recent years，with the promotion and development of cultural teaching philosophy in foreign language teaching(FLT)，linguists and educators around the world believed firmly that understanding the culture of foreign languages and the difference between various cultures is an indispensable part of FLT．But the truth is that most researches on cultural teaching are still mainly concentrated in the target language?一English cultural teaching，which has caused a great ignorance of native culture．It’S no doubt that it is a must for English learners to get familiar with the culture of English—speaking countries，but English learners are also invited to introduce or interpret the concepts or contexts related to their own culture，which is certainly applied to Chinese English learners． However，in the real communicative process，Chinese college students are able to express foreign cultural phenomenon in a relatively fluent way,while they fail to introduce their nati ve culture freely to foreign friends as a result of the long influence of”Westem Cultural Colonialism”in college English teaching．The weak competence to express Chinese culture in English will also lead to communication barriers and cultural misunderstandings．In view of this，it is very necessary for US to investigate the present competence of non-English—major college students，who are the majority of Chinese English learners，to express Chinese culture in English． Many researches on this topic have been done，most of which show that Chinese college students are not skilled at expressing Chinese culture in English and Chinese culture is in an awkward position in EFL．However,most of these researches are carried out either in prestigious universities or key higher institutions．The study on the competence to express Chinese culture in English of students from local institutions is relatively deficient．Therefore，it is still very necessary to do more such researches in local institutions，as the students there are more