文档介绍：On the Influence of Background Knowledge in English Teaching
1. Introduction
The definition of culture
Culture, in a broad sense, means integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that both a result of and integral to the human capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to eeding generation. Culture thus consist of language, ideal, belief, customs, taboos, codes, institution tools, techniques, and works of art, rituals, ceremonies, symbols, etc. Culture reflects a total way of life of people munity. Every human society has its own particular culture, or social-culture systems, and culture is so inclusive that it permeates virtually every aspect of human life and influences predominantly people's belief and behavior, including linguistic behavior, In a narrow sense, culture may refer to local or specific practice, belief or customs, which can be manifested in folk culture enterprise culture or food culture, etc.
If view from the content rather than its scope, there are generally two types of culture: material and spiritual. While material culture as the term itself suggests, is concrete, substantial and observable, most of spiritual culture, the products of mind ideologies, belief, values and concepts of time and space or example, is abstract, implicit, and hidden. In contrast with nature in the sense of what it born and grows, culture refers to what has been grown and brought up with.
The relationship between language and different cultural backgrounds
What is the relationship between language and culture? What role does culture play with language? In any culture or region, language is much more than semantics, much more than what the written page or the spoken word can contain. This especially es clear when studying a foreign language and learning the ways of a particular culture. Language is closely related to culture and can be said as a part of culture. From a dynamic view, language and culture interact with each other and