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1、The Influence of Culture Factors in English Teaching文化因素对英语教学的影响The Influence of Culture Factors in English TeachingContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction. .2II. The Relationship between Language and Culture2 1. Different definitions of culture.2 2. The relationship between language and cultur

2、e.3III. The Purpose of Culture Teaching.41. The purpose of culture teaching.42. The content of culture teaching.4IV. The Problem and Solving of Culture Teaching. 6 1. Listening. 7 2. Vocabulary. 83. Reading. 84. Writing. 95. Translation. 9 V. The Objective of Culture Teaching.10VI. The Strategies of

3、 Culture Teaching.10VII. Conclusion.12References.12Influence of Culture Factors in English TeachingAbstract: Language is the keystone of culture. Without language, culture would not be possible. On the other hand, language is influenced and shaped by culture, it reflects culture. Because of cultural

4、 differences misunderstandings may arise, although the language used in communication may be faultless. So learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciations, grammars and vocabularies. It means learning to understand their culture. Today in China, it is important t

5、o incorporate culture teaching in English teaching. The research of culture teaching in English language teaching mainly refers to three aspects, the necessity to teach, what to teach and how to teach. This article reviews briefly the definitions of culture and introduces the relation between cultur

6、e and language. It also states the content of culture teaching and the objectives of culture teaching and the strategies of culture teaching. It further expounds that the final objective is to achieve the language acquisition of English-learners through culture teaching.Key words: culture; language;

7、 culture teaching 摘 要：语言是文化的基石，没有语言，文化就无法存在。从另一方面看，文化影响着语言，语言表现并反映着文化。虽然应用于交际时的语言没有错误，但由于文化的差异，误解也就随之产生。所以想要学好一门语言，不仅要掌握它的发音，语法，词汇，还要学会了解它的文化。今天，在中国，英语教学中的文化教育已日益重要。英语教学中对文化教育的研究主要包括三个方面，为什么教，教什么，以及如何教。这篇论文主要概括了文化的定义，文化与语言的关系，文化教学的内容，目标及方法，进一步说明英语学习者的最终的目标就是通过文化教学实现语言习得。关键字：文化；语言；文化教学I. Introduction

8、 When we talking about English teaching, most of people will think about those basic language teaching. Namely, listening, speaking, reading and writing, but ignore the culture factors. People those who have the ability of the basic language and communication still make some mistakes caused by cultu

9、re factors. So，culture teaching should gain more attention of education field. The teaching of culture is an indispensable parts of foreign language teaching. Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and language function. It means lear

10、ning to see the world as native speakers of that language does; learning the ways in which their language reflects the ideas, customs, and behavior of their society; learning to understand their “language mind”. Learning a language, in fact, is inseparable from learning its culture. Culture is a com

11、plicated social phenomenon. It exists everywhere; it covers everything and it is involved in all the aspects of social life. Thus, it is considered as the sum of all the achievement got from the social and spiritual life. Generally speaking, culture can be divided into two parts: one is Formal Cultu

12、re, or Knowledge Culture. It includes all the accomplishments in social and physical science and highly reflects humans material and moral civilization. The other is Common Culture, or say Communicative Culture. It has a serious of different features in daily life, such as customs, ceremonies, manne

13、rs and holidays, etc. In addition, peoples actions or speeches all directly or indirectly reflect their self-cultivation.Since the 1990s, cultural studies have been discussed more frequently, and there is regained interest and understanding in English language teaching and research. Our English lang

14、uage curriculum has especially accepted culture teaching as one of the objectives in language teaching. II. The Relationship between Language and Culture1. Different Definitions of CultureWhats “culture”? It is estimated that over 200 definitions have been proposed. H .Ned Seelye puts forward an und

15、erstand of culture on two levels: one is culture with a big “C” which includes literature, arts, music, architecture philosophy and achievement of science and technology; the other is culture with a little “c” which refers to “life of a population”, that is, customs, traditions, and social organizat

16、ions. This means culture includes not only such material things as arts, music, and architecture, but also non-material things such as customs, traditions. Putting it simply, culture refers to the entire way of life of a society, “the way of a people”.The definition of culture consists broad sense m

17、eaning and narrow sense meaning. The broad sense defines culture as “the features of human beings”. But the narrow sense defines culture as “a life style of human community”. In fact, the narrow sense meaning is more apt to culture teaching. According to the narrow sense meaning, culture is a kind o

18、f social heritage, which people have created for a long time. Language and culture have intimate relations, that is, every kind of language has its own deep cultural connotation and every language is the image of a certain kind of culture.Liu Runqing and Deng Yanchang in their book define culture as

19、 the total pattern of beliefs, customs, institutions objects and techniques that characterize the life of a human community. 2. The Relationship between Language and Culture In foreign language education, the important of teaching foreign culture has been widely recognized. However, there are divers

20、e proposition and argument about the pedagogical treatment of culture. How to teach culture in foreign language education is the answer that relies on our understanding of the relations between home culture and foreign culture, the relations between language and culture.In the past, people have a wr

21、ong concept that learning language is just master its pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and language function, but ignore its culture factors which can cause misunderstanding. Just like Politzer said that if we teach language without teaching at the same time the culture in which it operates, we ar

22、e teaching meaningless symbols or symbols to which the student attaches the wrong meaning.Language is a part of culture and plays a very important role in it. Language and culture are inseparable. Without language, culture would not be possible.Many linguists explore the relation between language an

23、d culture. Nida hold the view that “every language form we use has carries meanings that are not in the same sense because it is associated with culture and culture is more extensive than language.Language is a vehicle of culture transmission. Different language may reflect different cultures; diffe

24、rent cultures entail different language expression. Idioms, proverbs and metaphors in different language derived from different origins, also demonstrate cultural differences. Different language may have different idioms owing to different living environments, social conventions and literature tradi

25、tion, etc. thus, language learners cannot truly master the language until they have also mastered the cultural contexts in which the language occurs. On the whole, the relation between language and culture determines the important of culture teaching. The relation of language to culture is that of p

26、art to whole. Language reflects culture and be influenced and shaped by culture.III. The Purpose and Content of Culture Teaching 1. The Purpose of Culture TeachingThe modern society accelerates the circulation of material and cultural products. It brings all the nations into a global village and it

27、makes cross-cultural communication an indispensable part in all nations life. However, the cultural differences are the barriers in cross-cultural communication. So the world is concerned on how to remove the barriers in cross-cultural communication. Language and culture are closely related, each in

28、fluencing and shaping the other. In learning language knowledge, to acquaint oneself with the knowledge of culture is the key point. One can hardly learn a language well without knowing the cultural pattern and rules of the target language. It is necessary to incorporate culture into the English cla

29、ssroom，In order to foster the students abilities in cross-cultural communication.2. The Content of Culture TeachingThe content of culture teaching is usually included two aspects, culture knowledge and culture understanding. Lacking either of them, learners of different cultural levels may misunders

30、tand the meaning and produce some pragmatic errors. And, it is culture awareness that links the two aspects. The former is to acquire cultural information of target language, the latter, to know and accept the other culture, to behave appropriately in the other cultural environment with its cultural

31、 knowledge. It makes learners to be aware of their understanding and knowledge of cultural differences to discuss problems they meet during their learning and finally to improve cross-cultural communication competence.1) ComplimentsThe compliment is used widely in various kind of American society and plays a very important role. People can encourage the action, which suit their mind through praising and complimenting. In American school, teacher always encourage students by pr