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1、文化意识与语言教学Cultural Awareness and Language TeachingAbstract: This paper mainly discusses the relationship between cultural awareness and language teaching in college English teaching. It explains the definition of culture first, then briefly analyzes the interrelationships between culture and language
2、, cultural awareness and cross-cultural awareness, culture teaching and language teaching, and finally states the relationship between cultural awareness and language teaching. It analyzes a survey of 98 English majors in Huai Hai Institute of Technology, focusing on students attitudes towards cultu
3、ral learning, and the causes that may have hindered the acquisition of cultural awareness of those students participating in the survey. The findings of this survey has shown that being lack of sufficient cultural input may be one of the main reasons why most participants have not obtained conscious
4、 cultural awareness in the process of language learning, and that most students hope to have a more communicative and interactive classroom learning environment to learn culture. Several suggestions are also provided for future application of cultural awareness in language teaching. Keywords: cultur
5、al awareness; language teaching; questionnaire摘 要:本文重点阐述高校英语教学中,文化意识与语言教学的关系。论文先从定义方面阐述“文化”的内涵,并简要分析文化与语言、文化意识与跨文化意识、文化教学与语言教学的关系,进而阐明文化意识与语言教学两者之间的关系。本文通过对淮海工学院98名英语专业学生的访谈及问卷调查,考察了学生对语言学习中文化学习的认知情况,以及影响被调查者形成文化意识的原因。调查结果表明,文化输入的不足成为受调查者在过去的语言学习中未能形成有意识地文化认知的主要原因之一;此外,学生们也希望现有的课堂学习环境更加开放和互动。本文还就语言教
6、学过程中的文化认知意识的培养提出了一些可行性建议。 关键词:文化意识 语言教学 问卷调查Contents1 Introduction 12 Culture Review 12.1 The Definition of Culture 12.2 The Relationship between Culture and Language 12.3 Cultural and Cross-cultural Awareness 22.4 Culture Teaching and Language Teaching 23 The Study of a Survey 23.1 The Analysis of
7、Interviews 33.2 The Analysis of a Questionnaire 33.2.1 Data Analysis on the Questionnaire (1) 43.2.2 Data Analysis on the Questionnaire (2) 53.2.3 Data Analysis on Cultural Curriculum 64 The Possible Ways to Develop Cultural Awareness 74.1 The Necessary Cross-cultural Awareness Skills to Acquire 84.
8、2 Instructional Strategies 85 Conclusion 9Appendix 11Bibliography 121IntroductionWith the development of the communications between people from different cultural backgrounds, more and more scholars or laymen have realized the importance of cross-cultural communication. How to cultivate English lang
9、uage learners cultural awareness and cross-cultural communicating competence has being warmly discussed in Chinas foreign language teaching world. Changes have been seen in the newest edition of syllabus for both English major and non-English major, for the first time, stating clearly the close rela
10、tionship between culture and language, and the importance to cultivate language learners cultural awareness. Unavoidably these changes would have great influence on the traditional way of language teaching. For English majors who are on the advance position of cross-cultural communication, they are
11、supposed to experience the new teaching methods and prepare themselves to be a cross-cultural communicator in the future. Though abundant essays on cultural and/or cross-cultural communication have been published, many of them focus on introducing western theory, and less of them have directed to le
12、arner-centered topics such as what chinas foreign language learners current learning situation is, or if they have not done well with it, what the possible causes that influence their cultural learning are. This paper may have a try on the above mentioned topic.2Culture Review2.1The Definition of Cu
13、ltureThe word “culture” originates from German word kulture, which means bringing soil under cultivation, and later is associated with the fostering of peoples body and spirit, especially the cultivation of art, moral ability and talent. English anthropologist Tylor explains “culture” in his book Pr
14、imitive Culture, “Culture is inevasible and complicated, including knowledge, belief, art, moral, law, custom, ability, and habit learned in society” (Tylor. 1981: 35). Later, American anthropologist Bais points out that each society has unique culture that is different from other society. At presen
15、t, people generally understand the concept according to “capitalized letter Culture” and “small letter culture” (Byram. 1994). The former includes art, literature, politic and so on, while the latter includes behavioral patterns and lifestyles of common people. Once a person is born in a culture, he
16、 would possibly die into the culture since he is living there. But for the first time, historically, the 20th century regards identity as something people create for themselves, and people have, in fact, a choice of culture to live in. Young people in 21th century are not only aware of this, but als
17、o are frequent users of the opportunity to choose between different cultures.2.2The Relationship between Culture and LanguageLanguage ability is a kind of special skill gained during the human being evolution. Of course it also needs language environment. Social linguistics Goodenough, W.H. believes
18、 that language is a kind of social cultural phenomenon, and the relevant researches should be done from the perspective of the relationship between culture and language in his book. He argues that language in a society is one aspect of the societys culture, and the particularity of language shows th
19、at it is a main tool of learning culture during the process of learning and using. Without knowing its culture, a foreign language can not be comprehended and used correctly (Goodenough, W.H. 1981).2.3Cultural and Cross-cultural AwarenessCultural awareness in language learning is the ability to be a
20、ware of cultural relativity following reading, writing, listening and speaking. As Claire kramsch points out Iflanguage is seen as social practice, culture becomes the very core of language teaching, cultural awareness must then be viewed as enabling language proficiency (Claire kramsch. 1993: 23).L
21、anguage itself is defined by culture. Language competent cannot be achieved without a good understanding of culture that shapes it, especially in foreign language learning. It is not only therefore essential to have cultural awareness, but also have cross-cultural awareness, such as the understandin
22、g of the relationship between target culture and native culture.2.4Culture Teaching and Language TeachingThe interrelationship between culture teaching and language teaching has been explored in depth by Michael Byram. The basis of Byrams position is that it views language as a cultural phenomenon,
23、embodying the values and meanings particular to a specific society, referring to the traditions and artifacts of that society and signaling its peoples sense of themselvestheir cultural identity: “to teach foreign culture is to introduce learners to new competences and to allow them to reflect upon
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