Exploring the Impact of Serious Reading of Classical Metatextuals on University Students’Learning of Traditional Culture

An important carrier of excellent Chinese traditional culture is the classic book,and university students carry the important responsibility of promoting Chinese excellent traditional culture and propagating cultural confidence.The serious reading of classical texts is an important way for university students to learn traditional culture,which has the advantages of professionalism and systematization.At the present stage,university students lack the awareness and action to read the classics,and the time for serious reading is very limited.The genre,subject matter,and extent of IP development are important factors that affect the in-depth reading of the classic metatext.

Saving the Reading Culture

The Double Take column looks at a single topic from an African and Chinese perspective.This month we discuss what we can do to boost the declining reading culture.Balance Technology With Reading JEAN D’AMOUR MBONYINSHUTI A 38-year-old media and communications professional in Rwanda In today’s fast-paced world,we are facing a concerning decline in the culture of reading.People have gradually become less interested in reading,often favouring digital content or succumbing to the distractions of social media.This shift is impacting not only our educational systems but also the development of wellrounded,critical thinkers.

Value of Horizontal Inscribed Boards in Jiuxia Village from the Perspective of Farming-reading Culture

Horizontal inscribed boards are the main form for working people to long for and pursue a better life,and are an important carrier of traditional culture. From the perspectives of sociology,architecture and ecological folklore,this article analyzes the intrinsic relationships between people’s values,neighborhoods,customs and horizontal inscribed boards,and interprets the decorative value,human value and modern value of horizontal inscribed boards through preliminarily studying the cultural connotation of horizontal inscribed boards in Jiuxia Village.

An Analysis of Reading Materials in New Senior English for China Based on Cultivation of Cultural Awareness —A Case Study of Compulsory Book 3

China is in the era of rapid development of information technology and the era of close cultural communication between countries, which requires English teaching to cultivate students’ cultural awareness, develop their intercultural communicative competence. Based on Byram’s checklist, this paper analyzes the cultural contents in reading materials of New Senior English for China (NSEFC) Compulsory Book 3. The research indicates that the textbook is rich in cultural content and the selected reading materials are authentic. However, there are two shortcomings: the uneven distribution of themes as well as cultural contents and the lack of cultural content comparison in the textbook. According to the findings, this paper provides some suggestions for textbook editors and English teachers, aiming at realizing the improvement and a better use of the textbook, so as to cultivate students’ cultural awareness.

Culture Differences and College English Reading

Cultural differences have a great effect on English learning,especially on college English reading.Reading is a crucial tool in acquiring information and knowledge.Culture cannot be separated from language.College English reading should focus on the differences of culture.It is important to understand how to lay stress on the differences in the course of college English teaching and learning about reading for increasing students' ability of reading.This thesis analyzes the influence of culture on English reading and tries to set up a principle of teaching English through culture.To support my point of view,the relationship between language and culture is discussed first.Language is a part of culture and shaped by culture;it is also the carrier of culture and reflects cultural features of a community in which the language is spoken.Language and culture are closely related with each other.From the aspect of language teaching and learning,to teach a foreign language is to teach another culture;to learn a language is also to learn another culture.

The Input of Western Culture in English Reading Teaching in Junior High School

Cultural background knowledge is the important foundation in reading quality training, English reading as a language skill as well as an important part of language input is one of the main links in English teaching, which occupies an important posi tion. Teachers should help students develop the field of vision, to improve their reading ability through expanding the scope of western culture.

Language, Culture & Teaching of English Reading

A culture has a close connection with a particular language and plays an important role in the learning and teaching of it. This paper is to discuss the necessity to strengthen students’ culture awareness, and to present some effective approaches to the instruction of cultural knowledge in teachng of English reading.

Several ways to Entegrate Culture in English Reading Teaching

文化包罗万象,语言是文化的载体,二者关系密切,因此在英语阅读教学中必然涉及到文化教学。本文要探讨的是怎样把文化融入到阅读教学中。

Using Culture Penetration and Culture Aside in Teaching Culture in College English Intensive Reading Course

Teaching culture is an indispensable part of English teaching.Teachers should teach western cultures along with teaching linguistic knowledge itself.In college English intensive reading class due to heavy workload,tight schedule and large classes,culture teaching,to certain degree.,seems hard to be realized.In this article,the authors introduce two practical,flexible and user-friendly methods: culture penetration and culture aside which can help teachers to teach culture in intensive reading class so that to improve students' intercultural awareness and competence.

A Study on Cross-cultural Barriers in Reading of English

This paper,from the perspective of cross-cultural communication,is trying to analyze the role of cultural knowledge in reading comprehension,and to generalize the comprehension barriers Chinese students meet in the comprehension process of English reading and explain the relationship between the barriers and language.The paper then analyzes the internal causes of the barriers.And lastly,it brings forth approaches and methods for eliminating the barriers.

On Cultural Background Information and English Teaching of Extensive Reading

This arricle is a research into the relationship between language and culture, cultural elements implied in vocabulary, and the way to widen a student’s ken of cultural background information in Extensive Reading class of English.

The Effect of Cultural Differences between China and Occident in English Reading Comprehension

With the development of society, English is pushed to be a significant position as a tool of communication. In English learning, the differences between Chinese culture and Occidental culture bring a lot of difficulties in English reading comprehension. And the effect mainly represents in vocabulary, grammar system, language background. This paper analyzes the effect from the three aspects to help Chinese English learners understand the effect better and give them some enlightenment in English reading comprehension.

Cultural Factors in Reading

Reading is a basic ability in learning English and reading comprehension exercise is a common way to assess this ability.Since reading is a communicative activity between author and reader in written form,there are some different rules and regulations of this communication in different countries.Therefore,cultural factors,existing in reading,decide,help,and influence the percentage of the right answers.This article attempts to analyze the effects of cultural differences in reading and the barriers in comprehension,and aims to improve students awareness of cultural differences in reading.

Exploring the Promotion Path of Urban Reading from the Perspective of Urban Cultural Soft Power

As a form of urban culture,urban reading plays an important role in the improvement of the citizens’quality,urban quality,and urban spirit.In the new era,there are imbalances in the supply and demand,content construction,regional structure,and ecological structure of urban reading.It is necessary to analyze and grasp its development trend,optimize the development path of urban reading,and promote the improvement of urban cultural soft power.

An Empirical Study on Teaching Non-English Major Adult Students Reading with Allusions and Their Stories

Effective English reading requires readers not only possess good English grammar, flexible reading skills and plentiful vocabulary but also master rich cultural background knowledge.However, for the adult students educated in the Continuing Education College, it is rather obvious that they have troubles learning English The author of this thesis pro-posed a new idea of English reading teaching-teaching with allusions and their stories in English reading class.The author tries to apply the relationship between schema theory and reading in the process of teaching adult students so that they can get a deeper understanding of English allusions and their stories.The author of this thesis did an empirical research and made a quantitative analysis for pretest and posttest.The result of this research indicates that to improve English reading proficiency, either teachers or students should attach equal importance both to language structures and to cultural background knowledge.

文化分析在大学英语阅读教学中的有效运用——基于《Five Famous Symbols of American Culture》的个案分析

对于大学英语教学来说,阅读教学是非常重要的一环。但是当今大学英语阅读教学主要存在偏重句子结构分析、偏重重点语法讲解、偏重阅读应试技能、忽略文本文化内涵等误区。为了提高大学英语阅读教学中的教学效果,作者结合自身教学实践,以一篇大学英语阅读课文为案例,通过尝试"翻转课堂——变教师独讲为学生自学研讨、以小见大——挖掘文本的具体文化背景、中外比较——感受中西方的文化差异"等文化分析方式来提高大学英语阅读教学的实效。

Factors Affecting English Reading of High School Studies

Compared with the skills of listening and speaking, reading is commonly considered to be one of the most difficult skills to be improved for the middle school students. The slow progression results from various obstacles the students might confront in their reading. This essay makes a summary of various difficulties that hinder the students＇ successful reading comprehension, from the aspects of vocabulary, sentence and grammar, understanding of a passage, habits of reading, logic thinking, meanings of language and culture background.

Psychological and Philosophical Readings of the Spectatorship of Bollywood and Indian Tamil Film in Sri Lanka

The objective of this study is to explore the psychic, moral, ethical and logical significances in the spectatorship of Bollywood and Tamil film in the Sri Lanka. Bollywood and Tamil film has been taking a very popular cultural performance in Sri Lanka. The original Indian spectatorship of these film traditions has been diverted by the cultural and political psychology of Sri Lanka. Hence, this local orientation of the Indian cinema remains a quite metamorphosis and deconstruction in its appreciation and screening in terms of the social, cultural and political features that deeply-rooted in Sri Lankan history, culture and geographical limitations. For this study, several film texts, which include typical Bollywood and Tamil film characteristic features were used and observed on how they have been absorbed in the Sri Lankan cultural society. And on the other hand, some audience surveys specific to different film appreciation contexts were conducted. They included urban slums, semi-rural Muslim societies, north and east areas of Tamil villages, Colombo urban society, Tamil state areas and Kandyan Sinhala rural villages. In the textual analysis of the film content, implicit psychological narrations and their social and aesthetic interpretations were revealed in the analytical explanations. Using the audience surveys, many different opinions that can be traditionally filtered in the screening and appreciation of these film traditions specific to their living cultural settings were also identified. In conclusion, perception in Sinhala film has been considerably designed by the experience of Bollywood and Tamil film spectatorship is deducted by this study. Hence, not only this social trend affected to the appreciation of film in local general audience but also in all the facets of film production （script writing, shooting, acting, dialoguing, music and choreography and screening） has also significantly being influenced by the Bollywood and Tamil film. As a result of this evolution of local film culture, most recent trend in Sinhala film noir is also being followed by the early subjective consequences of Bollywood and Tamil film culture in Sri Lanka.

The Relationship between the ESL Students' Prior Knowledge and Their Reading Comprehension

This article will firstly review literature about the readers' prior knowledge and its roles in reading comprehension.Secondly,it will explore the kind of prior knowledge which should ESL tertiary students have in their English reading comprehension.Thirdly,the essay will describe a research among the ESL tertiary students from China about their views on the relationship between prior knowledge and reading comprehension.

Improving College Students＇ Language Applying Competence in the Teaching of Reading

College English teaching aims to cultivate the students＇ language applying competence, to help them broaden their mind, to absorb in foreign cultural essence and to improve cultural accomplishment. For college students, acquiring reading comprehension ability plays an essential part in understanding cultural distinctions and communicating effectively. However, the truth is that their reading comprehension ability and language applying competence prove not very optimistic. Therefore, the Present paper gives some insight to teachers on how reading English should be taught more effectively to college students.