A Study On English Culture Teaching In Senior High Schools By Advance With English

At present, intercultural communication is more and more important. Learning about the target culture is the key to develop the intercultural competence and therefore, the introduction of English culture should not be overlooked. However, for a long time, in our country's secondary English class, English teachers lay less stress on English culture and overemphasize linguistics knowledge. The new Curriculum Standard in Senior English clearly points out that culture awareness is one of the five components of comprehensive language competence and prescribes cultural goals for each grade. As a result, these years both NMET papers and English textbooks include more information about culture. Hence, English teachers should realize the importance of culture teaching. However, for English teachers, it's a challenge to effectively integrate culture teaching with language teaching in real teaching contexts.In 2005, senior high schools in Jiangsu Province began to use Advance with English written under the guidance of the new Curriculum Standard in Senior English as English textbooks, which are full of culture information. The author tries to find how to use adequate culture teaching techniques to make the most use of Advance with English.Firstly, this thesis expounds the necessity of culture teaching in senior high schools from different aspects in terms of the close relationship between language and culture. Then the author analyzes the new Curriculum Standard in Senior English and Advance with English from the aspect of culture teaching. Next, by making a survey among senior English teachers and students at Jianbi high school, an average one in Zhenjiang, the author tries to find out the current situation of culture teaching in the same level schools. Besides, the author comes up with some related culture teaching techniques of using Advance with English in Jianbi high school. Meanwhile, the author also carries out a three-month contrast experiment with two Senior 1 parallel classes to prove culture teaching techniques are of great help to improve students' intercultural communicative competence and culture knowledge. Then, the author proposes how to solve some normal problems senior English teachers meet in the process of teaching culture. At the end of the thesis, the author gives implications for the English culture teaching to Jianbi high school and her senior English teachers, based on the findings of two questionnaires and the experiment.