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Culture teaching for thebeginners of English 　　[摘 要]：中国加入WTO以后，社会对人才的英语水平的要求由过去的只注重考试成绩转变为要求能达到真正使用英语交流的程度。在目前中学英语教育之中，传统的“语法-翻译”教学法仍就占据主导地位。在本文中就“文化教学”在中学英语教学之中应该受到的重视提出了自己的看法。并将目前中学英语教学实际情况做了简要分析，将教学存在的可改进之处提出，既在中学英语教学之用适当加大文化教学的比重。 　　[关键词]：文化教学 中学英语教学 culture teaching， communicative 　　Part I. Introduction of Culture Teaching. 　　Most university professors and native speakers of English who works as an English teacher see culture teaching as an important aspect in English teaching. The importance of culture teaching has already been discussed by western language teaching experts（Stern， 1983）. Culture Teaching holds the key of improvements of language learners’ basic abilities applying the target language-English： comprehension which includes reading and listening， expression that is to communicate face to face and to write formal academic research paper or daily notes. 　　According to Samovar and Porter（1982）， if a language user wants to effectively communicate in the target language， a good understanding of the cultural differences is required. Most language learners or people who are interested in language learning believe that spending a period of time in an English-speaking country such as the UK and US can make the learners improve really fast and become a very competent user， especially in their output - speaking and writing， the reason is proper input they can get there. 　　Part II. The situation in China. 　　Since China join the WTO， the requirements of English teaching in middle schools grows higher and higher， so that more culture teaching is required in the English classrooms. 　　More and more Chinese admit that holding a degree from the states or UK can be a significant advantage in the job hunting market， this means better salary or possibility to a quick promotion. However， most Chinese students first landed somewhere like England or America， they found the English they learnt at school was so much different from the language that the native s