The New Standards for English issued in 2001 defined English learning as to develop ＂comprehensive competence in language using＂, which consists of language competence, language knowledge, affective aspects, learnin...The New Standards for English issued in 2001 defined English learning as to develop ＂comprehensive competence in language using＂, which consists of language competence, language knowledge, affective aspects, learning strategy and cultural awareness. Meanwhile, as educational psychologists, De Corte et al advocate four theories in teaching and learning process, which include a theory of expertise, namely, （1） A well-organized and flexibly accessible domain specific knowledge base; （2） Heuristic methods; （3） Meta-knowledge; （4） Self-regulatory skills; （5） Beliefs. Not coincidently, the New Standards is in line with the theory of educational psychology. This gives the way to the author to argue, from the view of educational psychology, by analyzing culture awareness as being functional in meta-cognition and self-regulation aspects in expertise development, the importance of emphasizing culture awareness in English language teaching and learning.展开更多
English has not only become the international language, as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and severs as a language of wider communication, but also has achieved a genuinely global...English has not only become the international language, as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and severs as a language of wider communication, but also has achieved a genuinely global status. Thus the spread of English provides language teachers with an abundance of data for relating second language issues to pedagogical concerns. To achieve positive pedagogical goals, it is very essential for language teachers to be aware of the status and functions of Englishes in the world today and in the future as well. To serve the purpose, this article suggests that varieties of English should be taught and special attention should be paid to teaching culture in our College English classroom so as to help our students to establish a sphere of interculturalism.展开更多
文摘The New Standards for English issued in 2001 defined English learning as to develop ＂comprehensive competence in language using＂, which consists of language competence, language knowledge, affective aspects, learning strategy and cultural awareness. Meanwhile, as educational psychologists, De Corte et al advocate four theories in teaching and learning process, which include a theory of expertise, namely, （1） A well-organized and flexibly accessible domain specific knowledge base; （2） Heuristic methods; （3） Meta-knowledge; （4） Self-regulatory skills; （5） Beliefs. Not coincidently, the New Standards is in line with the theory of educational psychology. This gives the way to the author to argue, from the view of educational psychology, by analyzing culture awareness as being functional in meta-cognition and self-regulation aspects in expertise development, the importance of emphasizing culture awareness in English language teaching and learning.
文摘English has not only become the international language, as it is spoken by a large number of native speakers of other languages and severs as a language of wider communication, but also has achieved a genuinely global status. Thus the spread of English provides language teachers with an abundance of data for relating second language issues to pedagogical concerns. To achieve positive pedagogical goals, it is very essential for language teachers to be aware of the status and functions of Englishes in the world today and in the future as well. To serve the purpose, this article suggests that varieties of English should be taught and special attention should be paid to teaching culture in our College English classroom so as to help our students to establish a sphere of interculturalism.
