On how to use the English classroom to develop students awareness of Western culture.docVIP

On how to use the English classroom to develop students awareness of Western culture [Paper Keywords] English language teaching and cultural awareness of Western Cultural Differences [Abstract] students of English communicative competence is the ultimate goal of English teaching in the communication process, students will encounter words, grammar barriers, as well as cultural communication barriers caused by the conflict, however, the teaching of English in China , teachers often focus on explaining the word, sentence and grammar, while ignoring the explanation and for the introduction of Western culture. a language is always dependent on the existence of a culture, and learn the language, it should be in a certain cultural background for this paper from the analysis of differences in daily communication in Chinese and Western cultures to start, made the process of teaching students in the Western cultural awareness in several ways. English as a foreign language, we should be teaching and learning of knowledge through language learning and listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, the infiltration of politics, culture, customs, customs and other Western cultural knowledge to students cultural communicative competence. A Cultural Differences 1. Salutation Chinese kinship terms in use have a tendency to generalize, not only with the family, between the frequent use among non-relatives. Young people, elders, said, ‘uncle,’ ‘aunt’ on the same generation known as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Sister . ‘but in English, kinship is not widely used in social, if we call each other in communication’ Uncle Green ‘,’ Auntie Brown ‘, the other will feel very uncomfortable listening in English culture, only a very close relationship The circumstances behind the use of such kinship and non-name, only with a name such as ‘Uncle Tom’. Again, ‘teachers’ of this phrase.’s campus in China, we call teachers when it is natural to called ‘Wang’, ‘Teacher Chang’, ‘Li.’ We are