Culture Diversity And The Approaches Of Culture Education In TEFL In Middle School

My thesis mainly discusses a most important problem about culture factors in the language education. With the methods of integrating theories into practice the thesis presents the necessity and importance of culture teaching and the implement of it in the practical teaching .It comes to the conclusion that cultural awareness is necessary in cultivating students' abilities to use a language property.For quite a long time, TEFL in China has been based on structuralism, which considers a language as a closed system and makes a point of the perception and recognition of the internal linguistic mechanism in teaching which enable learners to judge grammatical correctness of sentences. However, in the teaching practice it is found that with the knowledge of phonemic, syntactic and semantic rules of the target language, it is possible to create sentences without grammatical or lexical mistakes. But one still is incapable of communicating successfully in English-speaking contexts due to their failure to comprehend sociolinguistic rules. Many experiences and experiments show that Chinese learners of English have difficulty in communication despite a good command of the linguistic knowledge of language. The problem is not rooted in linguistic, but in communicative rules, specifically in pragmatic and intercultural communicative rules. Many Chinese learners often use English based on their Chinese cultural background or put English within a frame of Chinese culture. The ignorance of culture in learning and teaching has not only affected students' abilities of learning a foreign language, but also set up misunderstanding at communication level. It is now widely recognized that communicative competence is the goal of foreign language teaching. The theory of communicative competence was first proposed by Dell Hymes in 1971. It refers to form grammatically correct sentences and to know when and where to use these sentences and to whom. Communicative competence includes the understanding of different cultures and the power to create new thing, which is called cultural creativity.For the first time cultural awareness, cultural understanding and intercultural communicative competence has been prescribed in the new English Curriculum Standard. It's illustrated that teachers should broaden students' cultural visions and develop their awareness of intercultural communications. English, as a foreign language...