【正文】 rew water in my face, and the second time they tied me to a woman I39。s own influence. The recent researches indicate that reading prehension is neither simply a unidirectional informationreceiving activity nor a prehension of words, sentences, and texts. Readers construct a certain mode in the reading process, a prehensionaimed and interactive process that requires consistent inferring and guessing. An interactive process means that a text affects readers through its words, content, and structure whereas readers apply their background knowledge to act on the text. Background contains many aspects (Zhang, 2005). Idiom Idiom is an important part of the language and culture of a society. It is often hard to understand and hard to use idioms correctly. It is almost impossible to understand idioms from the meanings of the individual words. And with English idioms, even the same words may have different meanings. For example:“So, first of all, a student should learn not to look down on such idioms just because they’re made up of such simple and easy words. He should look out for identical phrases with different meanings and look them up in a dictionary if he’s not sure. He’s bound to run into a lot of trouble when he first uses them, but he shouldn’t give in, much less give up. If he keeps trying and keeps at it long enough he39。 strategies文化背景知識(shí)對(duì)英語(yǔ)閱讀理解的影響及教學(xué)對(duì)策高 春 艷【摘要】對(duì)文化背景知識(shí)的匱乏是造成中國(guó)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)者閱讀困難的主要原因，因此，在閱讀之前了解必要的文化背景知識(shí)是十分重要的，閱讀教學(xué)中，使學(xué)生熟悉所學(xué)語(yǔ)言國(guó)家的歷史、文化傳統(tǒng)和風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣等對(duì)拓寬教學(xué)內(nèi)容，開(kāi)闊學(xué)生眼界，使所學(xué)知識(shí)轉(zhuǎn)化為交際能力，有著不可估量的作用。分類號(hào) 密 級(jí) 編 號(hào) 本科生畢業(yè)論文題 目 文化背景知識(shí)對(duì)英語(yǔ)閱讀 理解的影響及教學(xué)對(duì)策 學(xué) 院 外國(guó)語(yǔ)學(xué)院 專 業(yè) 英 語(yǔ) 作者姓名 高 春 艷 班 級(jí) 05級(jí)六班 學(xué) 號(hào) 254010617 指導(dǎo)教師 毛 紅 梅 提交日期 2009 . 5 . 20 The Influence of Cultural Background Knowledge on English Reading Comprehension and the Relevant Teaching StrategiesGao ChunyanA thesissubmitted to the School of Foreign Languages and Literature Tianshui Normal University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree ofBACHELOR OF ARTSinENGLISH LANGUAGETianshui, GansuMay, 2009The Influence of Cultural Background Knowledge on English Reading Comprehension and the Relevant Teaching StrategiesGao ChunyanAbstract: Lack of the background knowledge is frequently the major cause of many Chinese EFL students’ poor reading prehension. Therefore, it is of great importance to learn some background knowledge before something is read. In reading class, it is very important to make students know the history, culture conventions and customs of English countries, which can widen students’ knowledge and change the knowledge into the ability of munication. Teachers should introduce the background knowledge in reading class. This paper, based on recent research findings and examples, discusses the close relationship between background knowledge and reading prehension, illustrates the influencing factors of background, such as idiom, literature and social customs, on students’ prehension, and proposes ways, such as class discussion, parison between native and foreign background and video and slide show, to help students develop background knowledge. Key words: reading prehension。教師應(yīng)注重向?qū)W生介紹文化背景知識(shí)，探索如何在外語(yǔ)課堂上有效地融入文化教學(xué)。ll make out and things will turn out well in the end” (Zhang and Cui, 2001). Though the passage is short, it includes ten idioms: look down, made up of, look out for, look up, run into, give in, give up, keep at it, make out and turn out (well). Literature Many writers usually quoted literature such as famous experts and their writings, folk literature and allegory etc..Example: In Jane Eyre, when Jane Eyre helped firstly Mr. Rochester put out the fire of his house, he revealed his love to her unintentionally. He said to Jane Eyre:“I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Bealah。ve had to keep ever since.” “Yes,” said the minister, “and the next time you go they39。 pastor finally prays and pulls up the earth to the coffin to carry on burying again. If the reader is not familiar with the religion cultural knowledge in the British and American country, he or she can cause the understanding of being blocked, let alone appreciates humor.Example2: “As soon as the wedding ceremony was over, we rushed to the bride and struggled with each other for her pockets. I was the first to put my hand into her right pockets. I felt the coins and banknotes. A sudden feeling of happiness ran over me” (Wang, 2008).In Chinese countryside, children will rush to the bride and struggle with each other for the coins of her pockets, which is very auspicious. If students do not know the custom, they will not know that “we” refers to “whom”—adults or children and why “we” struggle with each other for her pockets. If they know the custom, they will understand easily why “I” was happy when “I” felt the coins and banknotes. Social Lives In reading material, there are many vivid examples about social lives. Example 1: “By voting against mass transportation, voters have chosen to continue on a road to ruin. Our interstate highways, those muchpraised golden avenues built to whisk suburban travelers in and out of downtown have turned into the world’s most expensive parking lots. That expense is economic. These highways have created great walls separating neighborhood from neighborhood, disrupting the plex social connections that help make a city livable” (Hua, 2001). Neither the structures nor the vocabularies in the text are very plicated. But some EFL learners find it very difficult to prehend the meaning of the text. The reason is that, in trying to understand this paragraph, learners must ha