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浅论中学英语教学中的跨文化意识培养

日期:2018年01月15日 编辑: 作者:无忧论文网 点击次数:6356
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论文地区:中国 论文语种:中文 论文用途:职称论文 Thesis for Title

On Cultivating Students’ Intercultural Awareness in English Teaching at Middle School

[Abstract] With the development of globalization,China’s entry into WTO and the coming Olympic Games in 2008, international contacts have become more and more frequent. The society is in great need of personnel who have a good command of knowledge and are able to communicate with people from different countries. How to make English teaching meet the needs of social and economic development has become an urgent task to English teachers. Therefore, developing students’ intercultural communicative competence has been paid more attention to in English teaching. Nowadays, it has been prescribed into the New English Curriculum Standards. Obviously, Middle School English teachers are facing the challenge of exploring appropriate means of culture instruction in their teaching contents. However, because of the testing system, teachers’ academic proficiency, students’ attitude and so on, culture introduction has been ignored in middle school and students’ intercultural competence is poorly developed. Since language and culture are inseparable,one cannot master the spirit of a foreign language without knowing its culture. Culture teaching should be given priority to in English teaching. In the hope of improving culture teaching in middle school English classes, practical principles and effective techniques are suggested. This article proceeds with the understanding of culture, analyses the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, discusses how to help students to learn culture differences at the beginning of English learning and how to relate Chinese and Western culture differences with language differences so as to develop students’ cultural sensitivity and their abilities to use various ways of communication flexibly, so as to enable students to carry out intercultural communication with English.
[Key Words]middle school English teaching; intercultural awareness; intercultural communication; differences in languages and cultures


浅论中学英语教学中的跨文化意识培养

【摘 要】 随着全球化的发展,中国进入WTO,2008年北京奥运会的临近,国际间的交流越来越频繁。社会迫切需要具有跨文化交际能力的全面外交人才。如何使英语教学迎合社会经济发展的需求,如何提高学生的跨文化交际能力是对英语教师和目前英语教学的提出的新要求。中学作为英语教学的基础阶段,由于注重学生跨文化意识的培养,新课程标准已经把这部分作为重要内容。中学英语教师面临着文化与英语语言知识教学的新挑战,然而由于我们的测试系统,教师的学术水平及学生的学习方式等问题,中学的文化教学依然很薄弱,学生的跨文化交际能力低下。语言与文化密不可分,不了解英语文化也就不能真正掌握这门语言。文化教学必须在中学英语教学中上升到一定高度。本文从文化的认识入手,分析了中西文化差异,探讨在初中英语教学中如何帮助学生学会透过文化差异现象看本质,如何把中西文化差异和语言差异有机结合起来。培养学生的跨文化意识,增强学生的文化敏感性和灵活运用各种交际手段的能力,从而使学生成功地用英语进行跨文化交际。
【关键词】 中学英语教学;跨文化意识;跨文化交际;文化语言差异

 

1.Introduction
Professor Deng Yanchang once said,“Learning a foreign Language well does not simply mean mastering its pronunciation,grammar and vocabulary. In fact,the learning of a Language is inseparable from the learning of its culture.”〔1〕The fundamental function of language is to communicate. A successful English teaching is to help language learners cultivate a good communicative ability. But nowadays we also can see that after many years of English study, students still find it difficult to communicate with native English speakers. The reason is that they lack the knowledge of western culture. Therefore, English teachers are facing one problem: furnishing students with the knowledge of culture background and improving their intercultural communicative competence in English teaching. Then cultural awareness indicates that foreign language learners have a good command of cultural knowledge of the target language, a strong competence of adjustment and communication .In addition, they can think and react in the ways as native speakers of that dimensions of culture. It is difficult to cultivate and enhance learners’ cultural awareness although they have well realized the existing differences because they often unconsciously attempt to superimpose their native culture onto the target language, which greatly hinders an effective intercultural communication.[2]

2. The necessity of intercultural awareness cultivation in middle school English teac