BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE TEACHING IN ENGLISH IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE TEACHING IN ENGLISH IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS Abstract：As we all know, middle school phase is an important phase for the Chinese students to learn English, so it has become very important to improve the English communicating ability of middle school students. English, here, as a main course of students, plays a more and more important role in middle school in china. In recent years, the cultural background knowledge in English teaching has attracted great attention. The investigation shows that cultural knowledge learning is helpful for improving language level and competence. Also, successful cross-cultural communication requires students’ acquaintance with the differences between the two cultures. Therefore, the teaching of cultural background knowledge in English class should occupy an important place in middle school. This paper first expounds the inseparability of language and culture to help readers know more about the relationship between them. Then, it analyses the goal and importance of cultural background knowledge in language teaching in middle school. Next，it introduces the approaches to the culture background. In fact, rich cultural knowledge is contained in language structure and vocabulary. To great extent, language comprehension relies on being familiar with cultural tradition, customs, history, thoughts and so on. Language learning and culture learning can not be separated. Language is just like the running water. It changes in every moment, for culture background changes from time to time. If language is a flower, culture will be the soil for this flower. As a teacher, we should give students the living language: both flowers and soil. That is to say, we should teach them both the language and the culture background knowledge. Key words: background knowledge language English teaching 论文摘要 众所周知，中学阶段是学生学习英语的重要时期，因此，增强中学生的英语交际能力变得尤为重要。英语，作为中国中学生的主要课程之一，变得越来越关键。近些年来，英语教学中的文化背景知识教学引起了人们的注意。研究表明，文化背景的学习能有效提高学生的语言水平和能力。而且，成功的跨文化交际离不开学生丰富的文