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A Study of Chinese Local Culture Teaching & Learning for Vocational College Students

Author: XuXiaoRong
Tutor: WenBin
School: Central China Normal University
Course: Subject Teaching
Keywords: Local culture Awareness of local culture Skills-oriented Enough for the degree
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2007
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Abstract

Vocational education as an important component of higher education, has been more and more national attention. Meanwhile, with the deepening of economic globalization, the huge market to attract large number of the entry of multinational companies has become an irreversible trend in the economic life of our country and the needs of the global layout. The development of this situation for College Graduates more demanding posts, while also providing a growing number of foreign-related communication activities, most of this series of activities in the Chinese mainland. On the one hand, the majority of vocational students in foreign communication, the lack of expression of the ability of the local culture, expression and presentation of the traditional culture of the motherland to be inadequate, resulting in cross-cultural obstacles, amounted to less than the purpose of dissemination of culture; on the other hand, graduates native level has been basically pass, but the cultural level is not necessarily as high as others imagine (Zhang Hongling, 2006). \This situation so that students not conducive to the understanding of the cultural identity of their consumers, consumer psychology and emotional needs will naturally affect the sustainability of the development of individuals and companies. Can not be achieved \The close link between language and culture has gradually attracted widespread attention, scholars at home and abroad have this discussion and research, but only confined to the Anglo-American cultural learning rather than focus on strengthening local cultural learning is clearly unable to adapt to the context of a new era English Teaching. Because in foreign language learning only by comparison with the national culture to a better understanding of foreign cultures \Based on this, on how to update the concept of vocational teachers and students, the implementation of the local culture teaching, improve vocational high school students' English proficiency and achieve adequate dissemination of the culture of the motherland purpose of a preliminary study. First, by way of questionnaires and interviews on the status of the local culture teaching in Higher Vocational English Teaching investigation and analysis, pointed out that the College English Teaching teachers to focus on the basics of teaching and the ability of the candidate, and for language and culture In particular, the problem of insufficient input of the local culture. Mainly includes the following four aspects: 1. Students on the basis of the existing level of English English presentation skills in English and Chinese traditional cultural knowledge contrast. II. Students awareness of the importance of foreign language learning local culture. III. Attitude towards supplementary teaching materials written about cultural knowledge. IV. English teaching to improve the problems of students' cultural awareness and literacy. Secondly, the thesis of the implementation of the measures and principles of the local culture teaching Vocational English Teaching as well as a series of questions are outlined. Need to pay attention to the adjustment of both teachers and students awareness of local culture, which is a prerequisite for the implementation of the local culture teaching; followed by a wide selection of University English teaching materials \the article Cultural Comparison of teaching, focus on the local culture teaching on; then only use the materials in full swing teaching activities of the local culture has some limitations, it is necessary for appropriate content supplement to existing teaching materials. The supplement covers the 10 most representative, nationality and interesting Chinese culture version. , Additional components of teaching should pay attention to improving the level of the teachers, the actual level of the students and professional differences, it is to properly handle the relationship between testing and teaching, the specific teaching should be implemented to comply with certain basic principles. Supplement the classroom teaching, teachers should guide students to take full advantage of the network platform to expand the autonomous learning. Finally, based on the above theoretical research, the paper lists a local culture of classroom teaching cases. In the concluding part of the paper, the author re-emphasized: the implementation of the local culture teaching is the urgent requirements of the new era of English Teaching. Secondly, the author puts forward some recommendations and a research confusion. Suggestion is that the requirements of the local culture teaching College English courses basic requirements \guiding role. The confusion is that the students what kind of means to learn the local culture mastery assessment.

A Study of Chinese Local Culture Teaching & Learning for Vocational College Students

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