The inseparable relationship between language and culture indicates that culture teaching is indispensable in English teaching.The ultimate goal of culture teaching in English teaching is to cultivate learners’cross-...The inseparable relationship between language and culture indicates that culture teaching is indispensable in English teaching.The ultimate goal of culture teaching in English teaching is to cultivate learners’cross-cultural communication skills.Cross-cultural communication is a two-way process,which requires not only knowledge of English culture but also the use of English as a medium for disseminating Chinese culture to the outside world.However,in actual English teaching,the teaching of Chinese culture is a mere formality,and the teaching effect is not obvious.Therefore,it is necessary to conduct a survey and research on Chinese culture teaching in high school English classrooms to understand its current situation,existing problems,and their causes,so as to provide suggestions for Chinese culture teaching in high school.展开更多
Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the disse...Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the dissemination of Chinese culture in English teaching in colleges and universities is lacking,which affects the improvement of students’intercultural communication skills.In order to effectively solve such problems,we need to take effective measures to disseminate Chinese culture by combining teaching content and students’characteristics.This paper summarizes the problems of Chinese culture dissemination in English teaching in colleges and universities,and explores effective countermeasures and teaching considerations,hoping to provide teachers with valuable guidelines.展开更多
Integrating Chinese culture into college English can not only enhance students’humanities literacy and cultivate their cultural confidence,but also facilitate the inheritance and international dissemination of Chines...Integrating Chinese culture into college English can not only enhance students’humanities literacy and cultivate their cultural confidence,but also facilitate the inheritance and international dissemination of Chinese culture.Taking Tyler’s curriculum framework as the starting point,this paper analyzes some factors that affect the integration of Chinese culture into the college English teaching and proposes some strategies for the integration of Chinese culture into college English teaching by innovating teaching objectives,enriching teaching contents,transforming modes of course delivery,and reconstructing the assessment system.展开更多
198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught Eng...198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.展开更多
As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a resul...As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.展开更多
Based on the theory of stance in interactive linguistics and the corpus of Bridging Cultures,this paper studies the stance-taking of advanced oral English.By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative researc...Based on the theory of stance in interactive linguistics and the corpus of Bridging Cultures,this paper studies the stance-taking of advanced oral English.By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to sort out and analyze the advanced oral corpus,the research finding suggests that people mainly use adjectives to express positive and negative stances,followed by nouns and verbs.Among the many grammatical constructions to express stances,“sub+is+adj”is the dominant structure,followed by“adv+adj”.It mainly presents four kinds of stance-taking in advanced oral English based on Bridging Cultures teaching materials:(1)positively evaluation stance-taking;(2)positive attitude stance-taking;(3)negative evaluation stance-taking;and(4)negative attitude stance-taking.展开更多
Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integ...Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integration of tea culture into college English teaching not only helps to enhance students’cultural self-confidence,but also helps to effectively carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.Therefore,according to the tea culture,this paper describes in detail the practical significance of integrating tea culture into college English education,and then puts forward that tea culture has become an effective way of college English teaching,hoping to bring the students’English learning ability to a certain extent.At the same time,it can further promote and develop China’s tea culture.展开更多
As a part of Chinese culture,red culture plays an important role in politics,education,economy and culture of today's society.Because of the similarities and differences between Chinese culture and foreign culture...As a part of Chinese culture,red culture plays an important role in politics,education,economy and culture of today's society.Because of the similarities and differences between Chinese culture and foreign culture,people's understanding and expression of things are different,and vocabulary in different languages also contains rich cultural connotations with different characteristics.In this paper,"red culture"was taken as an example,and the similarities and differences of its cultural meanings in English and Chinese were analyzed.This paper hopes that the instructor can make better use of cross-cultural factors in vocabulary teaching to help students familiarize themselves with and master all kinds of vocabulary with cultural characteristics.展开更多
With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and poli...With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and politics are being strengthened,it is necessary to adapt to the needs of the times and integrate ideology and politics into college English teaching.Integration of ideology and politics into teaching is a challenge faced by colleges and universities nowadays,which aims to make ideology and politics alive and well and more acceptable to contemporary college students.In view of this,this paper starts with the importance of the integration of ideology and politics into college English teaching,takes An Overview of Chinese Culture as an example,analyzes new approaches for integrating ideology and politics into the teaching process,and formulates the teaching design centered around these approaches,so as to promote the organic integration of ideology and politics with English teaching.展开更多
It is commonly believed that Imaguage serves as the carrier of culture and one part of it. And language teaching is inseparable from cultural knowledge impartment. So, teachers should attach great importance to cultur...It is commonly believed that Imaguage serves as the carrier of culture and one part of it. And language teaching is inseparable from cultural knowledge impartment. So, teachers should attach great importance to cultural background when teaching English language. Unfortunately, aphasia of Chinese culture occurs when they value Western culture and ignore the infiltration of Chinese culture. Under such circumstances, this paper demonstrates the importance of implanting Chinese culture into college English teaching and proposes corresponding measures for Chinese cultural implantation展开更多
Language is a part of culture and the carrier of the culture. Foreign language study is not only the process of learning a language but also the process of taking the language as a means of information transmission to...Language is a part of culture and the carrier of the culture. Foreign language study is not only the process of learning a language but also the process of taking the language as a means of information transmission to comprehend culture. With the implementation of the New Curriculum Standard (2017) in senior English, the notions of cultural awareness and culture instruction are being accepted and carried out in EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom by English teachers. This paper tries to analyze the relationship between language and culture, the contents and goals in teaching foreign language and culture, the significance of teaching culture in foreign language education. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving culture teaching: Learning a foreign language is inseparable from learning its culture; The knowledge of culture differences may help students to make less pragmatic errors and become proficient in cross-cultural communication; Great efforts should also be paid to the development of the student’s cross-cultural awareness, and then the quality of English teaching could be really improved.展开更多
With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.T...With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.This paper discusses the significance of introducing western culture,and puts forward some countermeasures based on teaching experience,in order to provide some references for the application of the introduction of western culture in college English teaching.展开更多
With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English tea...With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English teaching is an important task. Therefore, it is very important to study the teaching strategies of college English teaching. Culture and language are complementary and inseparable, which requires us to carry out cultural teaching during English teaching process. In this paper, we focus on the strategy of integrating enterprise cultures into college English teaching, and discuss several cultural teaching problems in college English class. As a language required course, English not only strengthen the learners’ language skills, but also enhance humanistic quality of students. However, current college English teaching takes the examination as the goal, which cannot meet the needs of the learner’s professional stuff. We propose the strategy of integrating the professional background into English teaching, in order to improve the students’ ability of comprehensive application of English and the professional quality.展开更多
When visiting Kazakhstan,President Xi Jinping proposed the strategic project to build the" Silk Road economic zone" . Under this background,the study of postgraduate students' English teaching is very important.Thi...When visiting Kazakhstan,President Xi Jinping proposed the strategic project to build the" Silk Road economic zone" . Under this background,the study of postgraduate students' English teaching is very important.This paper analyzes the historical status of the Silk Road,the significance of culture teaching of Silk Road countries,presents the study of the main elements and its implementation approaches of the Silk Road culture teaching in postgraduate students' English class,with the purpose of making more educators to participate in the" Silk Road economic zone" construction.展开更多
At present, English language teaching for English majors in local normal universities in China has been restricted by many aspects of factors, and the current situation is not optimistic. The main reason for this situ...At present, English language teaching for English majors in local normal universities in China has been restricted by many aspects of factors, and the current situation is not optimistic. The main reason for this situation is that the teachers and students of English majors in some local normal universities have some deviation in understanding the English language. The teachers can not have the right attitude towards English language culture teaching,and they make one-sided emphasis on the skill learning of English language majors,but ignore the normal teaching of professional English language culture. To improve this situation and improve the overall level of English majors in normal univerities, it requires us teachers and students to work together, improving the overall level of this course from the two aspects of "teaching" and "learning" , in order to help students to truly grasp the English language culture and skillfully use English in daily life and work.展开更多
A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language an...A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language and culture.In recent years,China sees a rising concern over the declining of Guoxue,or the study of traditional Chinese culture,and the absence of Chinese culture in College English pedagogy.A survey conducted in South China University of Technology shows that even for non-English majors with good English competency,their ability to express local cultures in English is weak.However,despite some experts’calling for reducing the proportion of English in education,this paper holds that English should be restored to its place as a lingua franca and that the reform of College English education is urgent and desirable.The integration of Chinese culture into College English can be achieved by such ways as re-editing the“Syllabus”,renewing textbooks,improving teachers’competency,and revising the assessment methodologies.展开更多
In daily communication, language differences significantly reflect the nature of cultural difference. To improve students' ability of cross-cultural communication, teachers are not only supposed to make students m...In daily communication, language differences significantly reflect the nature of cultural difference. To improve students' ability of cross-cultural communication, teachers are not only supposed to make students master language itself, but also should help them to understand cultural differences between their mother language and English.展开更多
As China’s association with the outside world is increaing, young people today are more and more exposed to popular culture which comes from the wert, popular culture has become part of their daily lives. In this art...As China’s association with the outside world is increaing, young people today are more and more exposed to popular culture which comes from the wert, popular culture has become part of their daily lives. In this article, l’ll look into the elements of poprlar culture and the are of populan culture in English teaching and learning.展开更多
The quality of English teaching is related to many factors such as materials, techniques, linguistic elements and external environment. However, in this paper the author points out that the internal and recessive envi...The quality of English teaching is related to many factors such as materials, techniques, linguistic elements and external environment. However, in this paper the author points out that the internal and recessive environment of the classroom is an important factor affecting English teaching. The paper begins with a brief introduction, followed by definitions of culture, organizational culture and classroom culture which are closely associated with the internal and recessive environment of the classroom. Then, the author offers their views concerning how to create ideal classroom culture. Finally, a conclusion is given.展开更多
In the 21st century, with gradually accelerating process of globalization, international exchanges are increasingly frequent. We should understand that within the range of the same cultural context, people have little...In the 21st century, with gradually accelerating process of globalization, international exchanges are increasingly frequent. We should understand that within the range of the same cultural context, people have little difficulties in communicating with others; however, if we use the same way to treat the one who is under other cultural backgrounds, they tend to have misunderstanding or confliction, affecting the interaction and communication and causing undue loss. Business English translation is communication process and tools held between people speaking different languages to conduct commercial communication. Culture is a factor in translation that cannot be ignored, different nations have different historical backgrounds, manners, customs, cultural traditions, therefore, business English translation must understand the cultural differences between China and the West, and tried to make these differences disappear in the interpretation process and find the exact words in the target language, so exotic cultural can represented in the target language.展开更多
文摘The inseparable relationship between language and culture indicates that culture teaching is indispensable in English teaching.The ultimate goal of culture teaching in English teaching is to cultivate learners’cross-cultural communication skills.Cross-cultural communication is a two-way process,which requires not only knowledge of English culture but also the use of English as a medium for disseminating Chinese culture to the outside world.However,in actual English teaching,the teaching of Chinese culture is a mere formality,and the teaching effect is not obvious.Therefore,it is necessary to conduct a survey and research on Chinese culture teaching in high school English classrooms to understand its current situation,existing problems,and their causes,so as to provide suggestions for Chinese culture teaching in high school.
文摘Language and culture are closely related,and understanding the cultural knowledge embedded in the process of language learning is an important goal of English teaching in colleges and universities.At present,the dissemination of Chinese culture in English teaching in colleges and universities is lacking,which affects the improvement of students’intercultural communication skills.In order to effectively solve such problems,we need to take effective measures to disseminate Chinese culture by combining teaching content and students’characteristics.This paper summarizes the problems of Chinese culture dissemination in English teaching in colleges and universities,and explores effective countermeasures and teaching considerations,hoping to provide teachers with valuable guidelines.
基金supported by Program of curriculum ideological and political education teaching reform,Zhoukou Normal University-Research on the Path of Ideological and Political Construction of College English Course in local universities from the perspective of cultural confidence(Fund No.SZJG-2022004)Program of Educational Curriculum Reform Henan Province-The exploration of the cultivation of the mentors in normal universities under the background of teacher professional certification(Fund No.2022-JSJYZD-028)+1 种基金the research and practice program of teaching and learning in Zhoukou Normal University(Fund No.JF2021016)achievements of the training program for young and middle-aged key teachers at Zhoukou Normal University in 2021.
文摘Integrating Chinese culture into college English can not only enhance students’humanities literacy and cultivate their cultural confidence,but also facilitate the inheritance and international dissemination of Chinese culture.Taking Tyler’s curriculum framework as the starting point,this paper analyzes some factors that affect the integration of Chinese culture into the college English teaching and proposes some strategies for the integration of Chinese culture into college English teaching by innovating teaching objectives,enriching teaching contents,transforming modes of course delivery,and reconstructing the assessment system.
文摘198 non-English freshmen students from Shandong Yingcai College were selected as research subjects.The subjects were divided into the experimental group(EG) and the control group(CG).The students in EG were taught English integrated Chinese traditional culture for three semesters,while the ones in CG were taught as usual.The results indicate that the integration of Chinese culture broadens the students' horizons and improves the students' ability to express Chinese culture in English and intercultural communicative competence.
文摘As one of the most distinguished features of Chinese Culture,collective oriented culture is the deep structure of Chinese cultural psychology which has shaped Chinese character and influenced their behavior.As a result of it,Chinese students suffer this negative effect from collective orientated culture when acquiring English,especially in oral English acquisition.TEFL teachers should be aware of cultural psychology and try their best to minimize its negative effect instead of neglecting or even enlarging it during oral English teaching.
文摘Based on the theory of stance in interactive linguistics and the corpus of Bridging Cultures,this paper studies the stance-taking of advanced oral English.By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to sort out and analyze the advanced oral corpus,the research finding suggests that people mainly use adjectives to express positive and negative stances,followed by nouns and verbs.Among the many grammatical constructions to express stances,“sub+is+adj”is the dominant structure,followed by“adv+adj”.It mainly presents four kinds of stance-taking in advanced oral English based on Bridging Cultures teaching materials:(1)positively evaluation stance-taking;(2)positive attitude stance-taking;(3)negative evaluation stance-taking;and(4)negative attitude stance-taking.
文摘Further strengthening the integration of traditional culture and college English teaching has a great impact on the cultivation of students’comprehensive moral literacy and values.At the same time,the ingenious integration of tea culture into college English teaching not only helps to enhance students’cultural self-confidence,but also helps to effectively carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.Therefore,according to the tea culture,this paper describes in detail the practical significance of integrating tea culture into college English education,and then puts forward that tea culture has become an effective way of college English teaching,hoping to bring the students’English learning ability to a certain extent.At the same time,it can further promote and develop China’s tea culture.
文摘As a part of Chinese culture,red culture plays an important role in politics,education,economy and culture of today's society.Because of the similarities and differences between Chinese culture and foreign culture,people's understanding and expression of things are different,and vocabulary in different languages also contains rich cultural connotations with different characteristics.In this paper,"red culture"was taken as an example,and the similarities and differences of its cultural meanings in English and Chinese were analyzed.This paper hopes that the instructor can make better use of cross-cultural factors in vocabulary teaching to help students familiarize themselves with and master all kinds of vocabulary with cultural characteristics.
文摘With the rapid development of information technology and the Internet,people can easily and quickly obtain news and information from all over the world.As the state’s requirements for the curriculum ideology and politics are being strengthened,it is necessary to adapt to the needs of the times and integrate ideology and politics into college English teaching.Integration of ideology and politics into teaching is a challenge faced by colleges and universities nowadays,which aims to make ideology and politics alive and well and more acceptable to contemporary college students.In view of this,this paper starts with the importance of the integration of ideology and politics into college English teaching,takes An Overview of Chinese Culture as an example,analyzes new approaches for integrating ideology and politics into the teaching process,and formulates the teaching design centered around these approaches,so as to promote the organic integration of ideology and politics with English teaching.
文摘It is commonly believed that Imaguage serves as the carrier of culture and one part of it. And language teaching is inseparable from cultural knowledge impartment. So, teachers should attach great importance to cultural background when teaching English language. Unfortunately, aphasia of Chinese culture occurs when they value Western culture and ignore the infiltration of Chinese culture. Under such circumstances, this paper demonstrates the importance of implanting Chinese culture into college English teaching and proposes corresponding measures for Chinese cultural implantation
文摘Language is a part of culture and the carrier of the culture. Foreign language study is not only the process of learning a language but also the process of taking the language as a means of information transmission to comprehend culture. With the implementation of the New Curriculum Standard (2017) in senior English, the notions of cultural awareness and culture instruction are being accepted and carried out in EFL (English as Foreign Language) classroom by English teachers. This paper tries to analyze the relationship between language and culture, the contents and goals in teaching foreign language and culture, the significance of teaching culture in foreign language education. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving culture teaching: Learning a foreign language is inseparable from learning its culture; The knowledge of culture differences may help students to make less pragmatic errors and become proficient in cross-cultural communication; Great efforts should also be paid to the development of the student’s cross-cultural awareness, and then the quality of English teaching could be really improved.
文摘With the development and reform of China’s education,it is important for college English teachers to introduce western culture in the daily teaching process,and to improve the humanistic quality of college students.This paper discusses the significance of introducing western culture,and puts forward some countermeasures based on teaching experience,in order to provide some references for the application of the introduction of western culture in college English teaching.
文摘With the overall promotion of the new curriculum reform, teachers’ teaching ideas have greatly changed. Under this background, how to apply the concept of new curriculum reform guide the reform of college English teaching is an important task. Therefore, it is very important to study the teaching strategies of college English teaching. Culture and language are complementary and inseparable, which requires us to carry out cultural teaching during English teaching process. In this paper, we focus on the strategy of integrating enterprise cultures into college English teaching, and discuss several cultural teaching problems in college English class. As a language required course, English not only strengthen the learners’ language skills, but also enhance humanistic quality of students. However, current college English teaching takes the examination as the goal, which cannot meet the needs of the learner’s professional stuff. We propose the strategy of integrating the professional background into English teaching, in order to improve the students’ ability of comprehensive application of English and the professional quality.
文摘When visiting Kazakhstan,President Xi Jinping proposed the strategic project to build the" Silk Road economic zone" . Under this background,the study of postgraduate students' English teaching is very important.This paper analyzes the historical status of the Silk Road,the significance of culture teaching of Silk Road countries,presents the study of the main elements and its implementation approaches of the Silk Road culture teaching in postgraduate students' English class,with the purpose of making more educators to participate in the" Silk Road economic zone" construction.
文摘At present, English language teaching for English majors in local normal universities in China has been restricted by many aspects of factors, and the current situation is not optimistic. The main reason for this situation is that the teachers and students of English majors in some local normal universities have some deviation in understanding the English language. The teachers can not have the right attitude towards English language culture teaching,and they make one-sided emphasis on the skill learning of English language majors,but ignore the normal teaching of professional English language culture. To improve this situation and improve the overall level of English majors in normal univerities, it requires us teachers and students to work together, improving the overall level of this course from the two aspects of "teaching" and "learning" , in order to help students to truly grasp the English language culture and skillfully use English in daily life and work.
基金This research has been supported by National Social Science Fund of China(Project 20CWW007)Philosophical and Social Science Development Plan of Guangzhou(Project 2020GZGJ28).
文摘A brief review of the history shows that China’s educational pendulum has always swung between English as an important practical tool for China to connect with the world and English as a threat to Chinese language and culture.In recent years,China sees a rising concern over the declining of Guoxue,or the study of traditional Chinese culture,and the absence of Chinese culture in College English pedagogy.A survey conducted in South China University of Technology shows that even for non-English majors with good English competency,their ability to express local cultures in English is weak.However,despite some experts’calling for reducing the proportion of English in education,this paper holds that English should be restored to its place as a lingua franca and that the reform of College English education is urgent and desirable.The integration of Chinese culture into College English can be achieved by such ways as re-editing the“Syllabus”,renewing textbooks,improving teachers’competency,and revising the assessment methodologies.
文摘In daily communication, language differences significantly reflect the nature of cultural difference. To improve students' ability of cross-cultural communication, teachers are not only supposed to make students master language itself, but also should help them to understand cultural differences between their mother language and English.
文摘As China’s association with the outside world is increaing, young people today are more and more exposed to popular culture which comes from the wert, popular culture has become part of their daily lives. In this article, l’ll look into the elements of poprlar culture and the are of populan culture in English teaching and learning.
文摘The quality of English teaching is related to many factors such as materials, techniques, linguistic elements and external environment. However, in this paper the author points out that the internal and recessive environment of the classroom is an important factor affecting English teaching. The paper begins with a brief introduction, followed by definitions of culture, organizational culture and classroom culture which are closely associated with the internal and recessive environment of the classroom. Then, the author offers their views concerning how to create ideal classroom culture. Finally, a conclusion is given.
文摘In the 21st century, with gradually accelerating process of globalization, international exchanges are increasingly frequent. We should understand that within the range of the same cultural context, people have little difficulties in communicating with others; however, if we use the same way to treat the one who is under other cultural backgrounds, they tend to have misunderstanding or confliction, affecting the interaction and communication and causing undue loss. Business English translation is communication process and tools held between people speaking different languages to conduct commercial communication. Culture is a factor in translation that cannot be ignored, different nations have different historical backgrounds, manners, customs, cultural traditions, therefore, business English translation must understand the cultural differences between China and the West, and tried to make these differences disappear in the interpretation process and find the exact words in the target language, so exotic cultural can represented in the target language.