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On enhancing cultural awareness in English Teaching Abstract: language and culture are interdependent and indivisible. Our English teaching process not a place for cultural factors, it is the students can not be the direct cause of decent communication. In this paper, students, teachers, assessment agencies tripartite start discuss how to enhance English teaching cultural awareness. promote students to improve cross-cultural communicative competence. Paper Keywords: cultural awareness enhanced communication Language is a social phenomenon, any language is not isolated, are in a certain socio-cultural context and the development of production. Language and Culture is like a pair of twin sisters, are interdependent and inseparable. Language penetration of the culture, language and culture to rely on records and dissemination. Although the teaching of English in China has a long history, but its focus has been only on the language learning system itself, that is only to teach students the correct pronunciation, a certain amount of vocabulary and syntax rules for the organization of sentences. teaching process, not cultural factors in place, the language as an isolated system to teach, to learn, the result can only be a pure form of language mastery, could not really master the language, let alone with its native speakers and cross-cultural communication. Look at the following two examples: When you are not familiar with English irregular plural nouns change to say “Therearemanysheeps” such a sentence, the native speakers due to non-native speakers and forgive you of your grammatical errors, and also correctly understand your message. In other words, grammatical errors and does not constitute a communication disorder caused by communication failure caused resentment. On the contrary, if you do not understand the English word “gay” implied “gay” in culture, and participating in After party companion and asked, “Areyougaytoday?” you may provoke an angry