Development of Intercultural Communication Awareness in Middle School English Teaching 英语本科毕业论文(教学类).doc

Development of Intercultural Communication Awareness in Middle School English Teaching Abstract: Language and culture share a common lot as lips and teeth do. Language is the carrier of culture, and is the reflection of culture in the form of speech. This thesis analyses multitudinous problems through the demonstration of relationships between language and culture, especially the problem that the importance of culture teaching for English learning have been ignored in the process of middle school English teaching. The author further elaborates the significance of developing intercultural communication awareness in middle school English teaching. The significance is as follows: helping learners to learn efficiently, promoting learners’ comprehensive abilities and improving learners’ appropriateness of communication. Accordingly, the author suggests three ways to develop learners’ intercultural communication awareness. Concretely, they are: class infiltration, activity infiltration, interculture-knowledge lectures. Key Words: language and culture; intercultural communication awareness; development; English teaching Introduction In these recent years, intercultural communication awareness has been paid more and more attention to in the process of English teaching in China. For this, it has been an uncontroversial common sense to develop learners’ intercultural communication awareness and ability in the practice of English teaching in China. However, the fact that middle school English teaching focus simply on language teaching in form, to some extend, has dominated the whole process of English teaching. This results in problems in the course of English teaching, where there is ignorance of intercultural communication awareness and a lack of intercultural ingredients. However, culture plays an important role in English teaching as famous linguist E. Sapir has argued in his works Language that there lies something behind a language, and language cannot exist without