Cultural Teaching In English Class Of Senior High School

For the first place, this paper is trying to theoretically probe into the relationship between culture and language which suggests that culture and language are not separated from each other. Then it analyses the high school ELT actuality that Culture teaching is not effective and efficient. Furthermore, it puts out the characteristics and requirements of the new English Curriculum Standard, which appeals for culture teaching in high school ELT class.The author of the thesis emphasizes that classroom teaching is the main approach to carry out cultural teaching. Enlightened by the research concerning culture teaching and the demands of English Curriculum Standard, the author conducted a 16 weeks' culture teaching experiment in a Middle School. The outcome of the experiment proves that culture teaching strategies in ELT class can stimulate students' enthusiasm for English learning, which will surely enrich students' linguistic knowledge, enhance students' cultural awareness and promote their comprehensive linguistic competence. In the meanwhile, culture teaching can facilitate ELT itself and the new curriculum reform.