On the Necessity of Leading Cultural Knowledge in English Teaching 英语专业毕业论文.doc

On the Necessity of Leading Cultural Knowledge in English Teaching Abstract:This paper is to discuss about the necessity of leading cultural knowledge in English teaching.This article elaborates emphatically the importance of cultural teaching in English teaching and gives a set of classroom-teaching methods for the purpose of enhancing the cross-cultural consciousness of students. And it introduces some methods to improve the cross-cultural consciousness and the sensitivity of students in English teaching, and the methods to improve the cross-cultural communicative ability from different channels. At the same time, this article discusses some existing problems and the counter solutions in the process of English cultural teaching. Key words: culture background knowledge, English teaching, cross-culture communication 1. INTRODUCTION Language is a part of culture and affects culture. Some sociologists think that language is the foundation of culture. Seeing from another aspect, language is affected by culture. In a word, language and culture affect each other; if someone would like to comprehend a language, he must know of culture of that language first, at the same time, if he wants to comprehend culture, learning the language is the first step. For learning a foreign language, persons should not only master pronunciation, grammars, vocabulary and idioms, but also know how to use the language to express their thoughts, habits, and action. With English as an international language, in China, more and more people learn English, but the main purpose of many people learning English seems to be communicated in order to overcome language barriers. However, compared to language barriers, cultural barriers are more difficult in cross cultural exchange, which in turn is often neglected by language learners. In fact, there are three major elements of English, basic knowledge of language, language skills application and cultural background knowledge , which are complementary