Cultural Awareness and Language Teaching 文化意识与语言教学.docVIP

文化意识与语言教学 Cultural Awareness and Language Teaching Acknowledgments Many people have helped me with this graduate paper, and I’d like to express my gratitude to them here. This paper could not be completed without the supports of many experts, such as Falk, J. and Hymes D.H. who provides me with theoretical supports of cultural awareness. Only by standing on the shoulders of these academic giants could I gain the rational understanding of the relationship between cultural awareness and language teaching. This paper could not be successfully completed without the guidance of Professor Y, who put sincere passion and great effort in this paper. Through her patient instructions, I have made great progress in improving reasoning, data analysis and academic writing. I’d also like to thank those English majors of Institute of Technology for their participating in my interviews and questionnaire. Without their help, I could not get the relatively direct and proper data which supports my topic firmly. 毕业设计（论文）外文摘要 Abstract: This paper mainly discusses the relationship between cultural awareness and language teaching in college English teaching. It explains the definition of culture first, then briefly analyzes the interrelationships between culture and language, cultural awareness and cross-cultural awareness, culture teaching and language teaching, and finally states the relationship between cultural awareness and language teaching. It analyzes a survey of 98 English majors in Huai Hai Institute of Technology, focusing on students’ attitudes towards cultural learning, and the causes that may have hindered the acquisition of cultural awareness of those students participating in the survey. The findings of this survey has shown that being lack of sufficient cultural input may be one of the main reasons why most participants have not obtained conscious cultural awareness in the process of language learning, and that most students hope to have a more communicative and interact