Culture appied into the English language teaching英语论文.doc

. Introduction It exists a common phenomenon in our English learners, that is, although many students have acquired four skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing according to the demand of our traditional syllabus, they often make mistakes in application of language to real life, even they can make up grammatically and semantically correct sentences, some of them are not appropriate or feasible in the current situations; what’s worse, sometimes it will violate cultural principle in the target language community, thus communicative failure occurs at times. The reason is we all ignore cultural teaching, applied into the English language teaching. Since 1980s, the research of relation between language and culture has gained more and more attention. The book Culture and Communication (胡文仲,1994) gives us a systematic introduction of new outcomes about relation between culture and language, the content and method of cultural teaching, etc. In fact, Cultures differ from one another. Each culture is unique. “Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciation, grammar, words and idioms. It means learning to see the world as native speakers of that language see it, learning the ways in which their language reflects the ideas, customs and behavior of their society, learning to understand their‘language of mind’. Learning a language, is inseperatable from learning its culture.” (耿延宏, 2000) This paper mainly applies different culture into three stages of English language teaching systematically. __________________ It’s said that there are more than 200 kinds of definitions of culture (孙军, 2000). It’s difficult to define because it is a large concept. However, as one that focuses on what culture’s characteristics are. Culture involves learned and shared behaviors, norms, values and material objects. It also contains what human creat to express values, attitudes, and norms (Linda Beamer and Iris Varner, 2003). In a word, “Culture refers to