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On the foreign teachers to explore the reasons for the classroom culture shock Paper Keywords: classroom culture shock for foreign teachers of Chinese Traditional Culture Abstract: Classroom teaching is an important part of the teaching process. In the English classroom teaching, foreign teachers and Chinese students because of their cultural differences, the phenomenon of culture shock is inevitable will happen. Using questionnaires and interviews, from the perspective of Chinese traditional culture interpretation of foreign teachers in the classroom culture shock occurred, and proposes foreign teachers and students should respect foreign cultural differences, and focus on education and teaching the cultural adaptation, to help foreign teachers and students to reduce the culture shock, improve teaching quality and effectiveness . I. Introduction As China’s reform and opening up deepened, more and more foreigners to come of College faculty. There is no , foreign teachers come not only for our students to provide a good learning environment, but also provide students with English as the opportunity to share their mother tongue. Meanwhile, the arrival of foreign teachers for students to create a direct contact with and understanding of different cultures. However, as different cultures have different values, leading to foreign teachers and Chinese students in the way of thinking, way of life, social norms, etiquette and many other differences exist. these differences is easy to make foreign teachers and students in the classroom teaching of culture shock occurred (cultureshock). Studies show that domestic and foreign: culture shock for foreign teachers and students to easily generate confusion, shock, anxiety, , depression, frustration and other emotions, such as education and even conflict disharmony. Second, research Culture shock comes from cultural differences. American cultural anthropologist Oberg “culture shock” is defined as “a person in