On Cultural Studies In English Language Teaching For Secondary Vocational Schools

Language is a symbol system of combining sound with meaning as human communication tool, which is an important part of culture and the carrier of culture as well, in the absence of culture language is only an empty shell, the relationship between language and culture decides the relationship between teaching language and culture, language can not be taught well without the content of culture, while the different purposes of teaching language impact the content of teaching culture, since the main purpose of foreign language teaching is cross—cultural communication, teaching culture plays a very important role in it.However , after studying the current situation of English pedagogy of secondary school in china, we will find that English pedagogy has not been given enough attention to in the past few decades, in many cases, students are likely to make mistake in culture, A question naiveOf students in British secondary school fully shows the shortage of instruction in culture in current English pedagogy.How will the culture be instructed in teaching English of secondary school? According to the author' s teaching experience and study on teaching strategies, this paper tries to probe into and probe the usage and function of the following methods: the randomized pedagogy; the pedagogy of cross—cultural comparison; the pedagogy of discussion and comparison; the pedagogy of introduction in class and supplement after class .In a word , teaching culture should be given adequate attention to in teaching English , that is to faster cultural concept and instruct cultural knowledge as well as teach language, otherwise, what we teach is only some meaningless symbols, therefore, English teachers must keep in mind, "two kinds of culture can be mastered only by mastering two kinds of language "...