英语毕业论文-BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE TEACHING IN ENGLISH IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS.docVIP

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE TEACHING IN ENGLISH IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS Name: Tong Mengyuan( Major: English Education(英语教育) Grade: 2007(Class 5) College: College of Foreign Languages Date: March 14th, 2011 Tutor: Lu Li( 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