中西文化在大学英语教学中的融合

Abstract

This theses analyses and summarizes the status quo of college English teaching in China. The literature review discusses the relationships between language and culture in the first place. Secondly, it describes the extreme situations of English language teaching (ELT) in China. Once more, it makes a brief introduction of Chinese teaching environment. And it emphasizes the necessity of introducing of Chinese culture into college English teaching in the end of literature review. After that there is a survey study about learners’ perception of culture teaching in EFL, which can reflect the current situation of ELT. Finally, the author puts forward some suggestions for the discoverable problems in ELT. I hope this article can make a contribution to spreading Chinese culture to the world.

Keywords: Cultures; Chinese English teaching; College English textbooks

Contents

Abstract I

Contents II

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

2.1 The studies of language and culture 2

2.2 English language teaching (ELT) in China 3

2.2.1 Extreme situations in ELT 3

2.2.2 Teaching environment 5

2.3 The necessity of introduction of Chinese culture into College English Teaching 5

3. Learners’ perception of culture teaching in EFL: A survey study 7

3.1 Questionnaire 7

3.2 Results and discussion 7

3.3 Summary of survey study 11

4. How to integrate the Chinese excellent culture into the ELT quickly 12

4.1 Culture comparison 12

4.2 Emotional guidance 13

4.3 Chinese popular phrase and interesting news teaching 14

4.4 Pedagogic Implications for ELT in China 15

4.4.1 The spread of Chinese culture relies on the quality of teachers 15

4.4.2 After-class learning helps students to express Chinese culture 16

4.4.3 Specific principles must be obeyed 16

5. Conclusions 17

5.1 Reasonable setting of course system and suitable selection of textbooks 17

5.2 Improvement of English teachers’ ability about understanding Chinese culture 17

References 19

Appendix I 20

Appendix II 22