On the Roles of Cultural and Artistic Features of Dialects in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

As a Chinese dialect that bears the greatest resemblance to Standard Mandarin,Northeastern Mandarin is the closest relative of Standard Mandarin in terms of vocabularies,rhetorical devices and grammatical rules.The traditional Chinese folk culture of Errenzhuan(two-people rotation)1 is an epitome of traditional Chinese culture,full of humor and wittiness.This paper aims to explore the necessity and feasibility of incorporating Errenzhuan into teaching Chinese as a foreign language as a way to spark greater student interest,increase the fun of learning and enrich teaching methods,which ultimately serves to improve the quality of Chinese teaching worldwide,spread traditional Chinese folk culture and strengthen China’s cultural confidence.

A Review of Contents and Methods of Cultural Teaching Research in China

Language is the carrier of culture as well as the main forms of culture.Language can not be separated from culture while culture depends on language.English teaching is the language teaching.It,of course,includes cultural teaching.In recent twenty years,Chinese scholars have made a lot studies about cultural teaching,which mainly involves in the content of cultural teaching and the methods of culture teaching.This paper centres on these two subjects,collects all articles about them written by Chinese researcher from important English journals as well as monographs,and makes a review of them so as to get a clear picture about the focus as well as the shortcomings of these studies.This provides a backcloth for future researchers.

Cultural Factors And Foreign Language Teaching

Foreign language teaching has many purposes,one of the important purposes of the foreign language teaching lies in training students to develop the ability of communication in foreign language.In recent years,several syllabuses put emphasis on training communication ability.However,during the foreign language teaching,we often only focus on the basic skills,such as reading,speaking,listening and writing.

Cultivating Students' Cultural Awareness in Foreign Language Teaching

Many foreign language teachers are often wondering why their students cannot avoid some mistakes in their writing assignment and oral presentations though the grammatical rules and phrases are quite familiar to them. On the other hand students also complain about the boredom of learning English."What is the use of learning English besides taking exams?"they often ask. In this paper the author is going to discuss language learning and teaching from the cultural perspective. By discussing the importance of culture teaching, the author intends to help both the teachers and the students to get out of their bewilderment. Some useful suggestions will be shared at the end of the paper, aiming to offer some practical and concrete guidance to both the students and my co-workers.

The Importance of the Language Teaching in Cultural Study

The root purpose of foreign language teaching is also carrying out a kind of cultural education,so can not only deliver the knowledge of language to the student at the time of carrying out this language culture to educate,but want to combine a language characteristics to give its language cultural information for enriching,just can better promote the result of foreign language study.This text aim at discuss English cultural education is in the foreign language teaching have of important function.

Practical Applications of the Understanding of Foreign Cultures in Japanese-language Teachings

Due to differences in cultural patterns,backgrounds,and thinking styles,it is difficult to learn foreign languages.By integrating the understanding of foreign culture into Japanese-language teachings,students may be able to use Japanese in a more standardized manner based on the understanding of Japanese culture;hence,improving their Japanese proficiency.This article explored the practical strategies of understanding foreign cultures in Japanese-language teachings in hope of helping students improve their Japanese proficiency.

Intercultural Communication and Foreign Language Teaching

Intercultural communication is an essential part of foreign language teaching, which can neither be ignored in the class room nor in the society. The importance of intercultural communication was introduced first and the reasons why it should be taught were explained in details. Several teaching contents were listed and ways of cultural teaching were suggested to conclude the paper.

Culture and Foreign Language Teaching

Culture teaching has been considered to be a very important element in foreign language teaching.Since English has become an international language,this paper mainly talks about the relationship between culture and English teaching.There are three parts in this paper:I.The role of culture in English teaching;II.Culture teaching methods in the English classroom;III.A danger in teaching cultures in English class.

Culture Input in Foreign Language Teaching

Language and culture are highly interrelated,that is to say,language is not only the carrier of culture but it is also restricted by cul-ture.Therefore,foreign language teaching aiming at cultivate students'intercultural communication should take culture differences into con-sideration.In this paper,the relationship between language and culture will be discussed.Then I will illustrate the importance of intercultural communication.Finally,according to the present situation of foreign language teaching in China,several strategies for cultural input in and out of class will be suggested.

The Language-Culture Connection Principlein Foreign Language Teaching

Language is closely related to culture. Whenever you teach a language, you also teach a complex system of culture. Additionally, cultural knowledge facilitates language learning. The Language-Culture Connection principle is about the complex interconnection of language and culture. This research paper focuses on the reasons why it is important to understand something about the culture to learn a language, and on ways to help students learn the culture of the language they are learning.

Cross-Cultural Competence and English Language Teaching

Language is a part of culture and plays a very important role in it. Learning a language is inseparable from learning its culture.So, we should stick to integrate culture teaching with English teaching and try to improve the student’s cultural awareness so that they can know how to communicate appropriately during the cross cultural communication.

Culture and Foreign Language Teaching

This paper argues that cross-cultural communication between Chinese and Foreigners often runs into trouble.Some factors which block communication lie in culture-governed structures of language.In view of the fact that the cultural messages are reflected in people's daily use of language,culture elements should not be overlooked in FLT.This paper attempts to explore the ways of including culture teaching in the language classroom.

Domestication and Foreignization in the Translation of Ecological Cultureloaded Terms——A Comparative Study of Two English Versions of Mencius

Mencius is composed of many long dialogues between Mencius and the kings,and some famous statements to show his viewpoints.There are many culture-loaded terms in this work which could reflect the Chinese traditional culture at that time.This thesis makes a comparative study on the application of domestication and foreignization in the translation of Ecological Culture-loaded Terms of two English versions of Mencius.And through this comparative study,this thesis would make its contribution on how to choose the appropriate translation strategy when dealing with such Culture-loaded Terms.

中医药文化融入针灸的英文教学在涉外卓越班的实践探索

为了推动中医针灸在全球医学领域和国际社会的普及与传承,培育既精通专业技能又熟练掌握英语,并深植中医文化自信的高素质复合型人才变得至关重要。本文探讨了涉外针灸教学中文化元素关注不足的问题,并论述了中医药文化融入涉外针灸的英文教学的深远意义;笔者将中医药文化与英语的听、说、读、写及翻译五大能力相结合,形成了一种“五位一体”的综合教学模式,并将其应用于涉外针灸的研究生班和八年制卓越班,旨在全方位提高学生在针灸英语领域的专业能力和文化自信度,为涉外针灸人才的培养策略提供了有益的参考。

对跨文化外语教育中文化自觉培育路径的探析

外语教育承载着培养文化自觉的责任和使命,探索跨文化外语教育中文化自觉培育的有效路径对落实“立德树人”的根本任务具有深远的意义。文化自觉的内涵及其与外语教育的内在互通性,阐释跨文化外语教学对文化自觉培育的价值意蕴,秉持“以文化人、以文育人”的教育原则,从教育理念、教育内容、教育方法及教育载体等方面探索文化自觉培育的有效途径,探究发挥外语教育文化育人功能的有效策略,通过知识传授、能力培养和价值观塑造,培养具有较强文化自觉意识和跨文化交际能力的专门人才。

以文化价值为导向的高校外语教学中双文化图式的建构研究

在中国文化“走出去”战略的持续推进下,培育兼具中外文化视野、具有跨文化交际能力的高层次外语国际人才已经成为高校外语教学工作的一项重要任务。为了培养学生的文化意识,使之在外语学习中形成双重文化理解能力,需要以文化价值为导向,建构外语与汉语双文化图式,通过讲解法、对比法、输入法、角色扮演等多重方法,建立图式联系、消解图式冲突、填补图式缺省,提高学生的文化素养与跨文化交际能力。