High School English Teaching Cultural Awareness.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 40 High School English Teaching Cultural Awareness [Abstract] Language is the carrier of culture. The process of learning a foreign language should be the process of learning cultural contents of this language at the same time. We may really master a foreign language only when we can understand its cultural connotation. From the perspective of cultural linguistics, to learn a language is to learn another culture, and to teach a language, teach another culture. One of the major purposes of SEFC teaching practice is to cultivate students’ communicative competence in English. Communicative competence contains both language competence and cultural competence, which is subjected to quite a few social and cultural factors. Thus English teachers should make great efforts to cultivate students’ cultural awareness. However, in Senior English teaching practice, little attention has been paid to the cultural connotation of the language, both teachers and students are poor in cultural awareness. In view of the current situation in SEFC teaching practice, the writer of this paper aims at exploring some methods to cultivate students’ cultural awareness. Only with the combination of language competence and cultural awareness can students achieve the purpose of communication. [Keywords:] language; culture; cultural differences; cultural awareness [Abstract] Language is the carrier of culture, language learning should be made in the process of learning language and culture. Only a real understanding of the language contained in the cultural meaning can really master a language. Therefore, from a linguistic perspective, learning a language is learning a new culture, to teach a language is to teach a culture. The purpose of high school English teaching is to train students to use English communicative ability. Communicative competence includes not only language skills, but also with the use of languages closely related to the social and c