Culture and English teaching.docVIP

Culture and English teaching [Abstract] In the new curriculum, teaching high school English, through infiltration and cultural knowledge to improve student learning enthusiasm and initiative is especially critical. English Teaching of cultural knowledge and first with Western culture and Chinese culture, the actual, mainly from the vocabulary Teaching start to understand the language habits of communication, learning and cultural backgrounds, to improve teaching efficiency. [Key Words] high school curriculum and cultural knowledge of English vocabulary First, the language and culture Human communication is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but also a cross-cultural phenomenon. In teaching, communicative culture to compare the two, we first talk about culture. The meaning of the word culture is a culture of its extremely broad terms. It refers to a narrow literature, music, art, etc., but generalized to say what is a sociological term, according to sociologists and anthropologists on the “culture” defined by our called “culture” refers to a unique community of faith, habits, institutions, goals, and general pattern of technology. Language is part of the culture, and culture plays an important role. Some sociologists believe that language is Culture crown stone - there is no culture without language; the other hand, language also influenced by our culture, reflecting the culture. can be said that language reflects the characteristics of a nation, which not only contains the nation’s historical and cultural background, and bears the nation’s view of life, lifestyle and way of thinking. vocabulary is the basic unit of language, vocabulary teaching in English teaching is especially important, but there are some high school English Teaching major problems. Chinese teachers taught there is a general feature That is the first to teach words, phrases, and then teach lessons and do the exercises. The words are all taught to follow three principles: sound,