【正文】 On the other hand, the teaching of culture is only regarded as a supportive means to improve students’ linguistic petence. English language teaching emphasizes on explaining and practicing words, phrase, sentence pattern, or general idea of paragraph. This pattern exerts a positive effect on studying language knowledge and grasping language skills, but some obvious drawbacks exist in this kind of pattern of teaching, because it neglects the existing of culture that language is the carrier of it. At present, in the middle school, the examoriented education is still influencing the teachers’ teaching idea seriously. Some teachers only emphasize on studying the language knowledge and spend most of time in teaching the knowledge of vocabularies, expressions and grammars in the classroom. Some teachers pay more attention to training the language ability of students, especially the cultivation of reading, but they ignore the cultivation of the munication ability of language during English teaching. As a result, students could only understand the language knowledge, but could not reach the understanding layer of the cultural knowledge. Though students have possessed language ability, they have not totally possessed the munication ability of language. In this case, students are good at language using。 the two are intricately interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance of either language or culture” (Brown, 1987:123). Language is the carrier of culture（ Su Dingfang， 1996:58). An integral part of languages such as word phrase carries a lot of cultural information, which is a portrayal of human social and cultural life. Knowing a language is not only to know the grammar, vocabulary, discourse patterns, but also the culture behind it, which determine whether the language using in a particular context is appropriate. Therefore, we may say, language is a window to the culture. To practice the culture, we also need language. We need to be able to express ourselves and to municate with members of the culture. We engage with them in many practices and products. In sum, As Seelye (1984) pointed out, “It is being increasingly apparent that the study of language cannot be divorced from the student of culture, and vice versa.” It would be difficult to transmit culture from place to place and from generation to generation without languages, it is impossible to understand language without cultural context. The formation and development of language is based on culture. Language can not exist without culture. Culture and language are inseparably interwoven with each other because the language is one aspect of its culture and culture in turn has profound influence on language. In other words, it is necessary and more proper to teach both language and culture in an integrated way. II . The importance of culture education in middle schools’ English teaching Culture is a very important part in the whole teaching process. culture education as an important way in middle schools’ English teaching, no matter teachers or students, they both should pay enough attention to the culture education. The need of English language learning An increasing number of linguists and foreign language teachers realize that linguistic knowledge does not guarantee mutual understanding unless one gain an understanding of another one’s culture. That is to say, no language can be taught in a cultural vacuum. To learn a foreign language well does not only mean to learn the pronunciation, the words and the grammar. They should be familiar with the cultural differences, because people with different cultural background have different customs, and behaviors. “To study language without studying the culture of native speakers is a lifeless endeavor”. (CrawfordLange amp。 sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the ans of the throat and mouth. Language as a social phenomenon was first described by Ferdinand se Saussure who claimed that providing only historical description of languages (as it was done at his time) should not be the only approach to this plex entity. He maintained that crucial information about language can be obtained from its mon users, who in most cases do not posses practically any theoretical knowledge about their native tongue and yet are petent speakers. Moreover, as Saussure assumed language use reflects the contemporary structure which should enable synchronic language analysis (language used at a given point in time) in addition to diachronic analysis concerned with the past linguistic forms. The social aspect of using language, or speech was called parole by Saussure, while the underlying knowledge of linguistic structure was known as langue. So from above contents ,we can make a conclusion that language is a broad category. The relationship between culture and language A language is a system of written symbols, with standardized meanings. Language is the outward manifestation of the spirit of people: Their language is their spirit, and their spirit is their language. Through words, we are able to municate with others and express our own ideas。 specifically, human speech。s politics, economy, education, religion, law, arts and literature etc. Communication culture is posed of language and nonlanguage factors including greeting, appreciation, title, euphemism and taboo. It reflects people39。 關(guān)鍵詞 :英語教學(xué)；文化教育；途徑 Ⅰ .Introduction Language and culture are inseparable. Language is the most important carrier of culture. Learning a language is learning a culture. Therefore, to learn English well, we need to understand the characteristics of the English language and its cultural background. Mistakes have often been made when we use English, owing to our lack of the knowledge o