Developing The Intercultural Awareness Of English Learners

For a long time, Middle School teaching has accepted and practiced the teaching method which was based on the theory of structuralism. It emphasized the cognition in the structure. Knowledge such as vocabulary, phrases, grammatical rules and so on is paid too much attention to. While the cultural background of the target language is ignored. As a result, the students who have learned English for many years often made mistakes in the communication because of the lack of culture differences between two languages.With the development of reformation of English teaching, the acculturation and cultural awareness has drawn much attention to. What's more ,a lot of experts undertook researches and published works and articles on these, most of which are related to language and culture learning. Among these works and articles, very few are concerned on how to develop middle school students'intercultural awareness according to New Curriculum Requirements. Therefore, this paper intends to make research on how to develop the students'intercultural awareness and set up the students'sensitivity of culture learning, try to overcome the astonishment and set up the agreement towards the target language in the real and virtual context.This paper is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the relationship between language, communication and culture. The inseparable relationship definitely showed the necessity of culture education in English teaching.The second chapter compares the differences between syllabus and The New Curriculum Requirements on intercultural awareness. The differences show us that the importance of development of intercultural awareness has been realized by people.The third chapter represents the situation of middle school English teaching. The students are weak in using English. They don't have intercultural ability. The paper analyses the problem of the teaching books, teachers and students aspects.The fourth chapter offers some suggestions on how to develop the students'intercultural awareness as the following:1, Evoke the culture awareness with textbooks, transfers the cultural background knowledge in class, improve the students'ability of intercultural communication in daily life. 2, Renew the teacher's concepts on evaluation including its evaluation function, target and content. 3, Get attention to develop the students'subjectivity and the factors of non-intelligence to respect the individual differences.The fifth chapter points out the steps on how to develop the intercultural awareness in detail:1 ,In order to realize"learning by doing",make the students use the language by active recreated textbooks and task-based learning. 2, Build up an abundant education environment, innovate the working style, take the advantages of computer-based education, and collect the culture resources in social practice. 3, Propose a study style based on"Active participation, Enjoyable research and cooperation,"in order to develop the students'initiation and sensibility on culture awareness.