English Cultural Experience Of The University Teaching And Research

Education can cultivate the people and promote the development of society, in which the cultivation of people has an effect on the development of society. Different kinds of schools that are responsible for cultivating the people and the universities are one of them who is capable of doing so. Nowadays, with the development of the information, communication, transportation, media technology and the more rapid development of the globalization, education in one country is not only bound to be influenced by its own economy, politics and culture but also by the tide of globalization. In our country, being an organization of cultivating the talents, the university must pay attention to equip the students with the international horizon, master English as a tool and the international communication principles, understand the different cultures of different countries and peoples so that they can shoulder the responsibility to achieve the communication between cultures. The college English (non-major), one of the important college courses, is an important tool for the cross-culture, where the culture teaching must be strengthened so as to promote the students to achieve the cross-cultural communication which is an important teaching task.The post-modernism states that knowledge is inseparable with culture. Knowledge is divided into two categories as the tacit knowledge and the explicit knowledge, which coincide with Hall's theory that culture can be divided into the tacit and the explicit. To gain knowledge, for the post-modernism, teaching includes not only providing the students the explicit knowledge but also giving the students opportunities to take part in, experience and feel to construct inside and gain the tacit knowledge and construct the new knowledge. In the process, language is affected by the culture and the social development, which mean language and culture are bound together. Therefore, the college English teaching is not only the language teaching but also the culture teaching. However, in our county, due to the lack of language environment and the culture atmosphere, what most of the college students get from learning English is simply a skeleton of language without the essence of it---culture, which makes it hard for the college students to achieve the cross-cultural communication smoothly. Gradually, some scholars came to realize that it is due to the absence of the culture in language teaching. So many theories about the culture teaching turned up, which were divided into two schools, teaching of culture as the knowledge and teaching of culture as a process. After a detailed research on those theories, the author thinks that those two theories should be combined together and applies the cultural experience to it. Finally the author puts forward the college English teaching by the cultural experience, during which the cultural themes, in the form of "word" and "language", are set on the basis of the teaching of culture as knowledge in order to do some activities associated with language, and the cultural experience is applied to the college English teaching as an approach on the basis of the teaching of culture as a process.As it concerned, by combining her own teaching experience and some relative theories, after doing the one-year action research, the author has some findings:First, in the process of applying the cultural experience to the college English teaching, the introduction of the cultural themes to the college English teaching attracts the students to be more and more interested in studying English.Second, the students being the subject of teaching encourages them to study English, which improves and betters, or even partly turns back against the traditional classroom of the college English teaching.Third, applying the cultural experience to the college English teaching makes the students realize that English study is not only about the words or the sentences, but the wholeness of language, which can be furthered into the understanding of the culture so as to change their English studying style.Fourth, according to the class observation, interviewing, questionnaire and the class activities, the strategy of the cultural experience in the college English teaching is formed.In the college English teaching by the cultural experience, the culture is functioned as the center, the circular teaching as a method, experiencing as an approach, students as a subject, which aims to find a new strategy for the college English teaching. This research is providing the students with a key to understand the culture in the English-speaking countries. At the same time, it stresses the subjectivity of the students and their active study. During its process, the Chinese culture and the English culture are both emphasized, the students and the teachers smoothly communicating with each other, which overcomes the students' anxiety. The explicit culture and the tacit culture are both considered and reacted to each other, which overcomes the obstacle in the cross-cultural communication. Besides, the college English teaching by the cultural experience promotes the multi-dimensional reaction to each other among the teachers, the students and the teaching materials, strengthening the teachers' professional development.All in all, the relation between the language and the culture being the source, the linguistic theory and the constructivism theory the base, the experience teaching an approach, the author builds the thought of the college English teaching by the cultural experience and puts it into practice. After the one-year action research, by integrating the concept of the culture as knowledge, the concept of the culture as a process and the cultural experience, on the basis of interviewing, questionnaire and the class observation, the strategy of the college English teaching by the cultural experience is formed, which is innovative. In addition, under the basic principle of the human being's thought, language and culture, making advantage of "learning by doing", carried out on the basis of the students' subjectivity, it is designed to combine the explicit culture and the tacit culture, aiming to give some hints to the college English teaching.