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Creative Education 2011. Vol.2, No.3, 279-287 Copyright ? 2011 SciRes. DOI:10.4236/ce.2011.23038 Aphasia of Chinese Culture in Senior High School English Teaching—Taken a Key Middle School in Kunming as the Example Dimin Luo School of Foreign Languages Literature, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China. Email: luodimin@163.com Received May 27 , 2011; revised June 15 , 2011; accepted June 22 , 2011. th th nd Studies on aphasia of Chinese culture in college English teaching have been focused for a long time. Yet little attention has been paid to the senior high school English teaching concerning this problem. As a matter of fact, senior high school English teaching plays an essential role in English learning. In order to find out whether aphasia of Chinese culture exists in this stage and dig out the factors, the author has carried out a survey with quantitative and qualitative methods in the senior high school students of Grade one and teachers of a key mid- dle school in Kunming. The survey reveals that this phenomenon does exist in senior high school English teach- ing and the extent is rather severe. The main reasons are lack of introduction on Chinese culture in English class, inadequacy of Chinese culture in textbooks and no emphasis on Chinese culture in English test. According to the explored reasons, the author proposes the corresponding suggestive solutions to the problem. They are: to reform the culture teaching, to add more Chinese culture in textbooks and to revise NMET (National Matriculation English Test). Keywords: Aphasia of Chinese Culture, Senior High School English Teaching, Chinese Culture Education Introduction tinguish it from other communities (Hudson, 2007). Culture is also classified in many ways. To distinguish be- tween the culture of non-English-speaking countries and that of the