English teaching should have a cross-cultural awareness.docVIP

English teaching should have a cross-cultural awareness [Abstract] This article discusses with cross-cultural awareness in the importance of English teaching. First discusses the differences of Chinese and Western values, vocabulary, cultural connotations, and social and cultural customs and followed according to these differences to improve English teaching Some measures to improve the English teachers’ cultural awareness, build knowledge of language and social and cultural knowledge of combining classroom model and a reasonable choice of teaching materials and methods. [Keywords] English teaching in cross-cultural awareness Language as the carrier of culture, rooted in specific cultural soil, learning a language, but also to understand the process of a country’s culture. The nation in which the ecological, material, social and religious environment, countries in the gradual formation of the different historical traditions, socio-cultural, language, habits, lifestyle, etc. for foreign language learners, if you do not understand these cultural differences are always own habits of thinking and speech patterns to explain each other’s words, will inevitably result in the language mistakes, so in order to deeply understand the English culture, the first should be aware of the main differences between Chinese culture and English culture. these differences will always be hidden many ways, affecting the students’ oral expression, communication, reading and understanding. The main difference between a Chinese culture and English culture 1, the values #8203;#8203;of the differences. Values #8203;#8203;in a large number of cultural factors is one of the core values #8203;#8203;expressed as the generally accepted belief by some members of society meet the social, cultural, persistence, stability, sense of community in the Chinese Confucian thought, and selfless devotion, humility prudent for the benefit of future generations and other concepts, we gene