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A Survey of English Culture Teaching in Senior High School

Author: MaLi
Tutor: XiuShuXin
School: Northeast Normal University
Course: Subject Teaching
Keywords: English teaching for senior high schools culture teaching present situation
CLC: G633.41
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Language contains a wealth of culture, and culture is conveyed by the form of language. They are so closely related to each other that one cannot be separated from the other. To some degree, language learning is actually culture learning. In 2003, English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School published by China’s Ministry of Education indicates that the improvement of the comprehensive ability of English is based on the development of language skills, language knowledge, emotion and attitude, learning strategies and cultural consciousness. From above, we can know the importance of culture teaching. Culture teaching is equally important to the cultivation of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. However, culture is still taught as background knowledge by some teachers in the process of teaching.In order to find out the problems of classroom culture teaching for senior high students, make proper suggestions and improve the quality of English culture teaching, the author makes a survey of English culture teaching in senior high schools and does an interview. This paper aims at solving the following questions. Whether the teachers and students attach importance to the English culture teaching? What is the present situation of English culture teaching for senior high schools? What are the problems in the process of English culture teaching? How do teachers teach English culture efficiently by using the resources of the new textbooks?Based on the guidance of culture teaching contents, targets and approached, this paper expatiates from the definition the culture and analyze the development and present situation of culture teaching at home and abroad. By analyzing the figures of the survey and the interview, combined with the contents of textbooks——New Standard English published by Foreign Language Teaching And Research Press, the author finds out some problems of classroom culture teaching for senior high students, discusses how to efficiently develop culture teaching for senior high school, and makes some suggestions.The result shows that culture teaching has brought to students and teachers’attention under new curriculum principle, but there are big problems in efficiency. For example, the class period is limited, and teaching approaches are simple and outdated. Students are not interested in class, and they don’t have a solid foundation of cultural knowledge. Through the analyses of interview and questionnaire, combined with our school’s teaching situation and teachers’experiences accumulated in the process of teaching, the author believes that culture teaching for senior high school must be integrated with the English textbooks. Teachers should use appropriate approaches according to different culture contents. In details, the author’s suggestions are as follows. First of all, understand the difference of Chinese and western culture by culture comparison. Secondly, improve students’accumulation of cultural knowledge by culture aside. Thirdly, improve students’the ability of language appreciation through literature works analyses. Fourthly, cultivate students’inter-cultural communication ability through classroom practice and task design. Next, make full use of tapes, videos, the internet and other devices to increase culture experience. Then, deal with“Culture Corner”part flexibly. Finally, pay more attention to Chinese traditional culture, and cultivate students’world consciousness.

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