【正文】 h classroom, but also outside the classroom. The students can acquire the culture information through reading newspaper, watching TV and reading novels. The principle of practicabilityThe practical principle also can be expressed to be “the principle of serving for munication.” The principle of practicability means the acquainted cultural contexts must be closely connected with the language contents and can be used in s。 maybe they will strongly ask their teachers to give them relative cultural knowledge in the classroom or outside the class. However most middle school students in China learn English just for the purpose of passing exams。 the essential core of culture consists of traditional (. historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values?？偠灾?，在中學(xué)英語教學(xué)中始終貫穿文化的導(dǎo)入和滲透，不僅能改善我們英語教學(xué)的不良現(xiàn)狀，而且能使學(xué)生的語言能力直接變?yōu)榻浑H能力，促進(jìn)其個人的全面發(fā)展。文化教學(xué)必須在中學(xué)英語教學(xué)中上升到一定高度。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì))AcknowledgementsI wish to express my thanks and appreciation to my tutor, Mrs. Zhong Xiao, whose careful reading and suggestions have been invaluable to me throughout my thesis writing. Without her help, this thesis would never have e to the present stage. My thanks should also be given to all the teachers who have taught me my BA courses. Without their enthusiasm and support, this work would not have been possible. I am also grateful to my classmates and roommates for their psychological support and encouragement. In particular, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to my friend Zeng Yinjuan. Without her support and constant encouragement, the pletion of my present paper would not have been possible.AbstractWith the development of globalization，China entering into WTO and the ing Olympic Games in 2008, international contacts have bee more and more frequent. Our society is in great need of personnel who have a good mand of knowledge and are able to municate with people from different countries. How to make English teaching meet the needs of social and economic development has bee an urgent task to English educators. Therefore, developing students’ intercultural municative petence has been paid much attention in English teaching. Nowadays, it has been prescribed into the New English Curriculum Standards. Obviously, middle school English teachers are facing the challenge of exploring appropriate means of culture instruction in their teaching contents. However, because of the testing system, teachers’ academic proficiency, students’ attitude and so on, culture introduction has been ignored in middle schools and students’ intercultural petence is poorly developed. Since language and culture are inseparable，one cannot master the spirit of a foreign language without knowing its culture. Culture teaching should be given priority in English teaching. In the hope of improving culture teaching in middle school English classes, practical principles and effective techniques are suggested. In this article, the author proceeds with the understanding of culture, then bines with the teaching practice as a intern in Wuhua Middle School to introduce some useful methods and ways through analyzing the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, discusses how to help students to learn culture differences at the beginning of English learning and how to relate Chinese and Western culture differences with language differences so as to develop students’ cultural sensitivity and their abilities to use various ways of munication flexibly, so as to enable students to carry out intercultural munication with English.It will be demonstrated that teaching a foreign language in middle school is not just to give a homily on syntactic structures or learning new vocabulary and expressions, but mainly cultivate or incorporate some cultural elements, which are related with language itself. In a word, the positive result of the study shows that teaching target culture and cultivating students’ cultural awareness in English teaching is not only helpful to solve the existing problems in English teaching in Chinese secondary schools, but also significant to the individual development of the secondary school students.Key Words: intercultural municative petence English teaching intercultural awareness culture摘 要隨著全球化的發(fā)展，中國進(jìn)入ＷＴＯ，２００８年北京奧運(yùn)會的臨近，國際間的交流越來越頻繁。語言與文化密不可分，不了解英語文化也就不能真正掌握這門語言。中學(xué)的英語教學(xué)并不僅是對句法結(jié)構(gòu)的講解和學(xué)習(xí)新的詞語和表達(dá)，而是需要培養(yǎng)和融入與語言相關(guān)的文化因素。s primary adaptive mechanism (Net. 1, ) Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts。 they used to teach English in traditional way. They prefer to let their students to learn cultural knowledge all by their own consciousness. Under this circumstance, intercultural awareness cultivation cannot achieve the ideal effect. However intercultural awareness plays such an important role that it undeniably bees the biggest concern of the present education field. Students’ attitude to the intercultural awareness cultivation Students’ motivationStudents’ attitude has its double function. On one hand, these positive attitudes are good for their learning efficiency. On the other hand, the goal of their learning is to possess these positive attitudes. According to the new standards of English curriculum, students’ attitude refers to the direct or indirect feeling experience which is showed in the course of English learning. It includes motivation, interest, and confidence and so on. Motivation refers to factors that determine a person’s desire to do something. It plays an important position on students’ attitude to the intercultural awareness cultivation. It is supposed that students who learn English in order to municate with English speakers well, even the native English speakers are the most strongly motivated. Therefore they will have a strong desire to learn some intercultural knowle