College English teaching in Cross-Cultural Awareness.docVIP

College English teaching in Cross-Cultural Awareness [Abstract] language and culture are inseparable. Learning a foreign language need to understand the language of the host culture. This paper pointed out the existence of China’s college English teaching in a culture divorced from teaching and language teaching issues and pointed out the importance of cultivating cross-cultural awareness, accordingly also provides a number of students cross-cultural awareness of the principles and concrete methods. [Keywords:] cross-cultural awareness; college English teaching; training Principles and Strategies Abstract: Language and culture are intimately connected. Learning a language involves learning the culture from which the language develops. This paper discusses the problem that culture teaching is separated from the language teaching in college English teaching currently. Based on the relationship between language and culture , this paper addresses the importance, principles and strategies of cultivating students’ cross-cultural awareness in college English teaching. Keywords:: cross-cultural awareness; college English teaching; cultivation strategy 1 Introduction Culture is a more complex social phenomenon, it has penetrated into the material life and spiritual life of human society in all aspects. Language is a social and cultural dimension. Generally speaking, language and culture is a kind of part and whole relationship. Language as an important part of culture, its specificity is mainly manifested in: Language is the carrier of culture, any language reflects a culture, have a profound cultural connotations. At the same time, language is the main tool for learning culture. Language learning process, it is also the process of learning language and culture, so we can say that the relationship between language and culture very close. There is no doubt that if the students of foreign languages a lot of vocabulary and only the mechanical memory of grammatical ru