Developing A Model Of Teaching Culture In The English Classroom For High School Learners

Language and culture are deeply related to each other. On one hand ,language is the matrix and reflection of culture. Without language, no one could kow what human's culture would become. On the other hand,culture is the base of language. Without culture, language could make no sense. However, culture teaching has been neglected in English teaching in Senior Middle Schools in China. The newly- issued Criterious for English Courses regard the culture awareness as one of their goals. But how we can have the Western Culture seep into our language teaching is still under solution.This thesis,based on a series of teaching experiments,discusses analyzes the datas collected during the experiments, discusses the ways to foster students'culture awareness in detail,and explains how to develop the teaching models which can well combine the language studies and culture teaching. After that, it comes to the conclusion that the teaching method which combines the language studies and culture teaching together will help students to acquire culture easily. Besides, in this way,students can reduce some pragmatic mistakes during the cross-culture communication,which can help.students to fully develop their language abilities. Meanwhile, to understand a new culture can help students understand our native culture better, which in turn can cultivate their global awareness and humanism spirits.