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1、The Role of English Culture in English Teaching in Middle School ContentsAbstract1Key Words.1I. The Relation of Culture and Language1II. The Importance of Culture in Language Teaching4III. Part three: The Purpose of Learning Culture.7IV. The Way of Fostering the Students Culture.84.1 Ways of Encoura
2、ging Students Interest in Culture84.2 Ways of Improving Students Culture94.2.1 Literature94.2.2 Film and Television94.2.3 Reading.104.2.4 Teachers.10V. Goals.12VI. Conclusion13References.13摘 要： 文化知识在英语教学中起到非常重要的作用，对英语学习者有很大的帮助。文化知识的提高可以帮助学生提高英语实际交际能力，避免在生活中出现尴尬情况。在实际生活中，一个好的师生关系是非常重要的，所以老师和学生要相互尊重。如
3、果老师过于严厉 那么他的学生就会失去学习的兴趣和动力。另一方面来说， 如果老师过于友好和谦让，那么学生就会变的越来越懒惰不向学习了。作为第二语言的老师应该了解文化知识在他们所教课程中的作用，只有把文化和所教课程紧密联系起来才能使学生熟练运用第二语言。 关键字：文化 语言 交际 英语教学 背景 信息 动机Abstract: Cultural knowledge plays a very important role in teaching of English, it can help English learner. The improvement of cultural knowledge
4、can help students to improve the actual communication ability, and avoid awkward in really life. In order to have a good teacher-student relationship, it is important that the teacher a and the student respect each other. If the teacher is too strict, de frightens the student, the students will not
5、learn well. On other hand, if the teacher is too friendly and permissive, the student may become lazy and stop working hard. Second language teachers should identify key cultural items in every aspect of the language that they teach. Students can be successful in speaking a second language only if c
6、ultural issues are an inherent part of the curriculum.Key words: culture language community English teaching background words nation information motivationI. The Relation of Culture and Language In our life language is a part of a culture and a culture is a part of a language, the two are intricatel
7、y interwoven so that one cannot separate the two without losing the significance of either language or culture. Culture is a way of life. Culture is the context within which we exist, think, feel, and relate to others. It is the“glue”that binds a group of people together. Several centuries ago, John
8、 Donne (1624) had this to say about culture in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (number 17) No man is an island , entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent ,a part of the main； Any mans death diminishes me , because I am involved in mankind；and therefore never send to know for who
9、m the bell tolls；It tolls for thee.Culture is our continent, our collective identity. Larson and Smalley(1972：39)described culture as a “blueprint”that Guides the behavior of people in a community and is incubated in family life, It governs our behavior in groups, makes us sensitive to matters of st
10、atus, and helps us know what other expect of us and what will happen if we do not live up to their expectation. Culture helps us to know how far we can go as individuals and what our responsibility is to the group. Different cultures are the underlying structures that make ROUND community round and
11、Square community square.Culture might be defined as the ideas, customs, skills, arts, and tools that characterize a given group of people in a given period of time. But culture is more than the sum of its parts. “It is a system of integrated patterns, most of which remain below the threshold of cons
12、ciousness, yet all of which govern human behavior just as surely as the manipulate strings of a puppet control its motions”(Condon 1973：4) “Integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, languages, practices, beliefs, values, customs, courtesies, rituals, manners of int
13、eracting and roles, relationships and expected behaviors of a racial, ethnic, religious or social group; and the ability to transmit the above to succeeding generations” (Goode, Sockalingam, Brown, & Jones, 2000).From that we can understand language is not only part of how we define culture, it also
14、 reflects culture. Culture is not only like the definition, it have a much broader concept that is inherently tied to many of the linguistic concepts taught in second language classes. George Peter Murdock (1961:45-54) cites seven “universal” of cultural patterns of behavior: 1. They originate in th
15、e human mind; 2. They facilitate human and environmental interactions;3. They satisfy basic human needs;4. They are cumulative and adjust to changes in external and internal conditions:5. They tend to form a consistent structure;6. They are learned and shared by all the members of a society;7. They are transmitted to new generations. Culture is defined by many people; in fact, every
