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1、 核心提示：On the secondary school English teaching and cultural differences of students Consciousness Abstract People learn a language is to carry out communication, either verbal communication or non-verbal communication to be constrained by culture. In the tradition of English teaching, such as vocabu
2、lary, phrases, grammar knowledge of English has been widely concerned about the content, while the English language as the cultural background of a nation been greatly neglected. A result, students study a few years the English language, and cultural differences between native and English-speaking n
3、ation is still ignorant of the customs. Thus, in communication with foreign friends, there have been many bias, error, or even a joke. 1 This article aims to wake up in the English teaching middle school counterparts during the infiltration of focus on cultural awareness; of English in secondary sch
4、ool teaching how to implement language teaching and cultural awareness training and interwoven, integrated; from high school students beginning awareness of cultural differences , to lay the foundation for future cross-cultural communication; the same time, hope this is start a discussion, in order
5、to attract more colleagues concerned about this issue in the course of time off from teaching to train more, the existing solid foundation of language knowledge, but also skilled cross-cultural communicative competence of the integrated foreign language talents. Key words: cultural awareness; school
6、 English teaching; communication; cross-cultural communicative competence On Cultural Awareness Building in English Teaching at Middle SchoolAbstract The purpose of learning language is to communicate, but there are some cultural barriers in language or non - language communication. In traditional E
7、nglish teaching, much attention is paid to knowledge such as vocabulary, phrases, grammatical rules and so on, while the cultural background of the language is ignored.As a result, students who have learn English for many years haxe no sense of the differences between the two languages in their cult
8、ural backgrounds and the customs of the people who speak the language The ignorance has caused lots of disagreements, misunderstangings and even laughingstocks in their communication with the native speakers. 1 Therefore, my aim is to call for a good understanding of the importance of cultivating th
9、e students competence of the cross-cultural communication. In the meantime, we hope that we can reach the goal in the nearest future to enable the students to meet the demands of the new era and the ever-developing society. Key words: cultural awareness, middle school English teaching, communication
10、, cross-cultural communicative competences I. Introduction Mr. Brown, the famous linguist once said: language, the same cultural heritage as a nations communication tools, is the culture itself, cultural expressions, customs and way of life that people most visible and most effective description and
11、 presentation. (Brown, 1994:170) As we all know, with the rapid scientific and technological progress and rapid development of society, the worlds positive development of globalization and integration. Peoples of the worlds increasing interaction and closer ties, especially after Chinas accession to
12、 the WTO to strengthen exchanges with the outside world, so that the use of foreign languages has become increasingly frequent and widespread. English is the worlds most widely used language, Chinese people should learn to communicate in English, they must understand the culture of English-speaking
13、countries, especially the communication culture. Therefore, not only to improve students English language skills, but also improve their cross-cultural communication. 2 This is a necessary requirement of our foreign language teaching quality of the training, knowledge and ability to structure and te
14、aching methods and means such as making the necessary adjustments and changes, abandon our previous foreign language as a pure language teaching tool for pragmatic tendency, paying attention to language teaching cultural knowledge, while strengthening the import, and train students on the sensitivit
15、y of cultural differences, tolerance of cultural differences and deal with the flexibility to adapt to growing international economic exchange and increasing the need for national competition. Byram and Morgan pointed out that : students need a cross-cultural communication skills, they can benefit f
16、rom the language of education. 3 Second, foreign language teaching need to strengthen cross-cultural teaching (A) the relationship between culture and language and content of cross-cultural communication 1, the relationship between culture and language People often say: To be bilingual, one must be bicultural. (To master both languages, we must grasp the two cultures.) Famous linguist Prado in his sixties, the la
