[ Middle School English ] Culture in English Teaching Education _4585

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[Middle School English] of Cultural Education in English Teaching
 
 
Language is the carrier of culture, the main manifestations of culture. With the development of language is the development of the national language is the social part of a national culture. Different nations have different cultures, history, customs and traditions and so on, different cultures and social customs of the peoples they are manifested in the language. Language is inseparable from culture, culture to rely on language, English language teaching, of course, is inseparable from culture and education.
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one, why the cultural and educational
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1. Cultural differences are barriers to cross-cultural communication
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the process of modernization has accelerated the flow of spiritual and material goods, the various ethnic groups into a common an indispensable part. However, cross-cultural communication and cultural differences are barriers to overcome communication barriers caused by cultural differences has become a common problem facing the entire world. If you want to own a business selling products the international market, not only economic and technical means superb, but also understanding the culture in which the object so that the products in the packaging design and practicality meet the psychological needs of people in target countries. For example, in China, The special emotional, and even If an entrepreneur do not understand this will be printed with Ability to create more cost-effective?
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2. Cultural education is the key to the use of language to communicate
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development of communicative competence is the ultimate goal of English teaching. Communicative language ability is the basis of ability, but with the language does not mean that have the communication skills. More and more people have reached a consensus that communicative competence should include the five areas: the four skills (reading, writing) with social competence (ie, people of different cultural backgrounds and the appropriate communication skills). However, English teaching, teachers tend to place more emphasis on the external form of the language and grammatical structure, that is, students create sentences grammatical rules, while ignoring the language of the social environment, especially language and cultural differences, resulting in difficult to know where the students what to say so, thus ignoring the communication skills of students. Here, the language and cultural differences in the role of English as an important issue to be raised.
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Second, the cultural content of education
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practice in English teaching, cultural differences and the interference caused to the students mainly in the following eight areas:
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1. Salutation
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PEP JEFC Textbook Book 3 Lesson 14 The man upstairs, there have been If we and the English people to comrade match, they will feel inexplicably.
 In JEFC Book 3 Lesson 34 Uncle Wang's Factory, the students call a worker as Kinship in Chinese language has a tendency to use the generalization, often among non-relatives: the young man said to the elders, But in English, kinship is not widely used in social life. If we are the elders of the native English speaker, said English culture is only the case very closely before and after the use of such kinship with no name, only with a name such as
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and if students know the teacher is the meaning of In fact, the English teacher is just a job; Chinese have the tradition of respecting teachers, Because of this cultural difference, resulting in a simple understanding of the students: Wang = Teacher Wang. In addition also customary to call the Chinese Are generally used in English called Mr. , Miss, Mrs. And so on.
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2. Thanks and appreciation
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general, Chinese people rarely use among family members, If used,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, will sound strange, or mutual relations with distance. In the English-speaking countries Send a bottle of beverage, meal preparation table, the other will say This is the most basic courtesy.
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When asked whether to eat or drink when you (Would you like something to eat /? drink?), we usually accustomed to polite about it, replied: Do not bother English-speaking countries in accordance with the habit, if you want, you do not refuse, say It also fully reflects the Chinese people and the English-speaking countries who implicitly magnanimous straightforward different styles.
3. Praise
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in English-speaking countries, and praise is also often used as a primer to talk. Praise main content of personal appearance, appearance, new things to buy, personal property, personal in some excellent work. Appearance is usually only when someone praised praised her efforts (dress) of the results, rather than her natural beauty. So a lot of hair compliment, and praise someone else's pretty little hair. Praise of others, the most common answer is:
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