【正文】 畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì)) Cultivation of Students39。 Cultural Awareness in English Teaching in Senior School1. Introduction 12. The necessity and significance of improving cultural awareness in senior English teaching 3 The request of the development of Internationalization 3 The imperative to the understanding of cultural background knowledge 4 The relation between students39。 basic skills and cultural knowledge 4 Listening 4 Speaking 5 Reading 6 Writing 73. Contents of cultivating culture awareness 8 Addresses 8 Greetings 9 Compliments and thanks 10 .Privacy and taboos 11 Color words 124. Some methods of cultivating culture awareness 14 Enhancing cultural background knowledge teaching 14 Cultivating cultural awareness in classroom 15 Objects and pictures 15 Discussions and contrast 16 Roleplay 17 Presentation 18 English songs 18 Audiovisual media 19 Cultivating cultural awareness outside classroom 20 Organizing English corner 20 Using authentic materials 21 Reading English works and writing diary in English 21 Inspiring students cultural interest in learning 225. Conclusion 22References 241. Introduction Language is just like a mirror that reflects its national culture. Professor Deng Yanchang once said, Learning a foreign Language well does not simply mean mastering its pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. In fact, the learning of a language is inseparable from the learning of its culture (1997). There is close relationship between language and culture. Language is the carrier of culture and culture is the content of language. There is no language without culture content (Zhang Tao, 2003). As a mirror of culture, language is strongly influenced and shaped by culture (Dai Weidong, 2002: 138). On one hand, culture will be unimaginable if it separates from language。 on the other hand, language will lose its content and meaning if it separates from culture. Language is closely related to culture, they develop together in the matural effects and influences. Therefore, teaching English well means more than merely teaching students the vocabulary, structures, and grammars. It also means teaching them how to slip into the English culture. Learners should be informed of how native English speakers see the world and how the English language reflects the ideas, customs, and behavior of their society. As we look back to see the situation in China’s schools, from the perspective of NEEC(National Entrance Examination for Colleges), English is considered to be important to all senior school students. However, for most students, the motivation of learning English is just a means to pass the exams and get high scores in English tests. And English teachers are just to help students reach this goal. Students spend most of the time on learning vocabulary, structures and grammar through lots of drills, practice and consolidation so as to memorize those knowledge, yet cultural knowledge is ignored. In this case, culture is often separated from its carrierlanguage. Both teachers and students’ cultural awareness are poor. As Chinese culture is not the same as that of Englishspeaking countries, the rules for using Chinese are, in some respects, different from those using English. The lack of culture knowledge leads to the failure in munication. Thus cultural education in senior English bees absolutely necessary.2. The necessity and significance of improving cultural awareness in senior English teaching The request of the development of Internationalization China has now bee a formal member of WTO, Beijing will host the Olympic Games in 2008. What39。s more，our country has been taking effective measures to further the policy of reform and openingup. Consequently, more and more cooperative and exchanging programs will be held between China and foreign countries. There should be more students with intercultural petence to meet this need. It’s necessary to municate with people from different cultural backgrounds. The modernization process accelerate the circulation of spiritual and material products, and bring all nationalities into a mon global village, crosscultural munication bees an integral part of national life, yet cultural differences are the barriers of crosscultural munication. If people do not understand the cultural convention in the USA or Britain, and use the way of China to treat foreigners, then it will create a lot of jokes, and even hurt each other39。s feelings, selfesteem and cause misunderstanding. Thus, to overe the cultural differences caused by munication barriers has bee a mon problem faced by the entire world. The imperative to the understanding of cultural background knowledge Understanding cultural knowledge is the key to language learning. One can not really learn the language, and teach language well unless one knows the patterns and norms of culture and cultural background (Net. 1). Without a specific cultural background, language is nonexistent. If students don’t know the culture of target language, they would find it is difficult to understand the meaning of certain words. For example, Thanksgiving, Hotdog has been brought about in a specific social and historical circumstance, it is not enough merely to know the meaning of the surface of these words. The relation between students39。 basic skills and cultural knowledge Listening Broadly speaking, listening is a process that listeners hear the voice and get the understanding of it. It needs to have not only the relative knowledge of words, tone, grammar, and so on, but also knowledge of the sociocultural knowledge. Whether listeners have the knowledge is the key to achieve the listening prehension. Such knowledge is mon knowledge, beliefs and experiences of each municator. If one neglects these existing cultural differences, he or she will have some obstacles to listen. For example, when stud