简介:Dragon is a totem in Chinese culture. In feudal society,the process of learning a language is a process of learning its culture. Traditional foreign language teaching in China attaches great importance to language teaching but ignores cultural teaching,which is subjected to quite a few social and cultural factors. Thus English teachers should make great efforts to cultivate students’ cultural awareness. However
简介:it is of great importance to take for cultural background knowledge as one of the contents in the whole process of English teaching so as to help students to have a good command of necessary cultural knowledge.4.3 Presentation of cultural knowledge can improve the quality of English teachingPresentation of cultural knowledge can benefit English teaching in at least three ways,which is the contextual meaning of words and sentences.Reading and writing English materials inevitably convey western culture. The students’ lack of cultural background knowledge often hinders their comprehension in reading. For example,English teachers are sure to help students enrich their cultural knowledge