Integration Of Culture Teaching Into The College English Listening Teaching

This thesis is concerned with the integration of culture teaching into the College English Listening Teaching in China. It has been generally agreed that culture teaching is of importance and necessity to the foreign language teaching by the linguists abroad and at home. But a hot debate is still going on that is how to integrate culture teaching into the foreign language teaching. The thesis is constructed from the perspective of integrating culture teaching into the College English Listening Teaching, illustrating the specific procedures and methods of culture teaching.To begin with, the fact of culture difference barricading listening comprehension is analyzed, followed by a literature review concerning the culture teaching in the foreign language teaching and College English Listening Teaching. The author also made it clear that the integration of culture teaching in College English Listening Teaching should pursue the aim of cultivating students'intercultural communicative competence. All of the above provide both as theoretical supports for the author's study and for the purpose of indicating the lack of culture teaching research in the College English Listening Teaching.To understand how culture teaching is currently implemented in the College English Listening Teaching, an empirical study is made. The author concludes from the survey that a) culture teaching has been conducted in different degrees under the two different listening teaching models; b) no listening teaching materials are designed under the cultural content curriculum; although teachers have realized the importance of culture teaching, their understanding and practice of integration of culture teaching into listening teaching needs to be developed and explored; c) students hold positive attitude toward the practice of culture teaching in CELT. Two considerations have been drawn from the survey: one is culture teaching should be merged into the traditional listening course; the other is audio-video course should be content-based. The integration of culture teaching under both listening teaching models requires more profound and thorough study.Based on the literature review and the result of the survey, one conclusion is drawn that it is necessary and of significance to integrate culture teaching in CELT. Thus, the author has provided a detailed illustration on the culture teaching principles, contents and evaluation system that would be used in CELT. Besides of this, the author also proposes several suggestions on the specific procedures and strategies of culture teaching under the two different listening teaching models respectively, in hope of taking the most use of the current condition to perform the best culture teaching and reflecting the author's understanding of integrating culture teaching into the College English Listening Teaching.