文档介绍：辽宁师范大学
硕士学位论文
A Study of the Effect of Teaching Cross-Cultural
Awareness in the EFL Classroom
姓名:孙茂华
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:@
20080601
A Study of the Effect of Teaching Cross-Cultural
Awareness in the EFL Classroom
摘要:
语言与文化密切相关,外语学习实际上是一种文化学习,要学好外语
就必须了解目的语文化, 尤其要熟悉本族语与目的语文化之间的差异。因
此,外语教学不仅是培养听、说、读、写、译等基本技能,更重要的是要
进行文化教学,让学生了解所学语言的文化背景,培养跨文化意识。培养
学生跨文化意识有助于学生更好地掌握和运用英语,使他们认识到英语学
习同时也是文化学习,只有这样才能学会该语言,否则,学的只是一种非
他非我的准语言。本文通过语言与文化的关系及对英语学习中常见的由于
文化差异引起的问题进行分析,并通过测试英语学习者在经过有意识地培
养其对于文化意识及英语文化背景知识前后的掌握情况分析,阐述了在英
语教学中培养跨文化意识的重要性,总结归纳了通过制定培养跨文化意识
的基本目标,应注意遵循的原则,基本内容,如何有效地培养跨文化意识
的方法。
关键词:跨文化意识,有效,英语教学
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A Study of the Effect of Teaching Cross-Cultural
Awareness in the EFL Classroom
Abstract:
Language and culture are closely related with each other.
Foreign language learning is in fact cultural learning. In order to
learn a foreign langue well, one has to understand the TL culture,
especially the differences between the SL culture and TL culture.
Therefore, foreign langue teaching is not just training in such basic
skills as listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.
Most important of all is to conduct cultural teaching so as to enable
students to understand the TL cultural background and enhance their
cross-cultural awareness. Developing students’ cross-cultural
awareness will help them to have a better mastery and use of English
and realize that learning English is also learning culture at the
same time. Only in this way can they master the language in the real
sense. Otherwise, what they learn would be neither English nor
Chinese. parative analyses of the relation between
language and culture and mon types of cultural differences
between Chinese and English in English language learning. This paper
expounds the importance of cross-cultural awareness in English
teaching, analyzes the problems existing in present cross-cultural
teaching and learni