英语教学中中外文化同步教学意识调查

Through questionnaires and interviews，raising synchronous teaching ofChinese and western culture offers a welcome chance for students and teachers inEnglish language learning and teaching. It provides students with a wide horizon tolearn more Chinese and English culture and it is good for students to have a deep andcomprehensive understanding and expressing Chinese culture in English. This thesismainly argued the importance of synchronized Chinese and English culturdawareness in the process of English learning and English communication, and try topropose a set of effective approaches and principles for Chinese and English cultureinput in college English learning，such as，first，the curriculum should be modifiedappropriately, advocates the teaching of Chinese and English cultural synchronization;second，according to the curriculum, the textbook should adjust, at the same time, andadd some Chinese and English cultural knowledge; third，Chinese and English cultureshould be appropriately added into English test, and focus on the teaching of Chineseand English cultural synchronous transmission; forth, teachers should pay attention toChinese and English culture，set up the consciousness of cultural teaching and applyeffective methods in cultural teaching.

1.3 Framework of the Paper

The paper is divided into five parts. The first part is the introduction, whichmainly presents the research background，research significance and framework ofpaper. The second part is theoretical review, mainly defines the culture，culturalcharacter，the relationship between culture and language，introduction to socialConstructivist theory. Cross-cultural communication tiieory, and history overview ofcultural teaching abroad and home. The third chapter is the research design, includingthe research subjects, research questions, research instruments and data collection.The fourth chapter is the results and discussion. The fifth chapter is the conclusion，which summarizes the whole research. Point out the findings, limitations andsuggestions.
Chapter Two Theoretical Review第二章理论综述

2.1 Definitions of Culture in Culture Teaching

The definition of culture，as the basic problem in culture teaching, seems to bealso the most sophisticated issue because there are many definition of culture in thehistory that educator may get drowned. William offered the definition as follows:there are three general categories in the definition of culture. There is，first，the‘ideal，in which culture is a state or process of human perfection, in terms of certainuniversal value; second，there is the Mocumentary' in which culture is the body ofintellectual and imaginative work, in which culture is the body of intellectual andimaginative work，in which, in a detail way，human thought and experience arevariously recorded.. .finally, third, there is the "social" definition of culture, in whichculture is a description of a particular way of life，which expresses certain meaningsand values, not only in art and learning but also in institution and ordinarybehavior...It seems to me that any adequate theory of culture must include the threeareas of facts to which the definition points, and conversely that any particulardefinition，with any of the categories, which would exclude reference to the others，isinadequate(Williams,1961:41-43). H. Seelye advised that English language teachersneed not be bogged down to define culture and he considered that so long as thedef