A Study On Chinese Cultural Aphasia Of High School English Teachers

Culture teaching is an inseparable part in English teaching process.Many experts and scholars have studied on the relationship between them and have achieved something.However,the achievements mainly focus on the study of the target language culture,while ignoring the other subject of intercultural communication.Until the concept of “Chinese cultural aphasia” appeared,people realized that many English learners could talk about western culture in English eloquently,but could not express Chinese traditional culture in English.This “aphasia phenomenon” attracted people's attention to the expression of Chinese culture in English.This study mainly discusses whether teachers have Chinese cultural aphasia in the process of English teaching,and from the following two perspectives to discuss:(1)What are their attitudes towards Chinese culture in teaching and how did they deal with them?(2)Conducting a cause analysis from a teacher's perspective.The author tries to propose some solutions from the teacher's perspective so as to cause teacher's attention to the native culture in English teaching and promote the better development of Chinese traditional culture.Based on Hanvey's cross-cultural communication awareness,the requirements of National English Curriculum Standards for General High School,Niu Li and Yu Xia's views on the principles of cultural teaching,and the cultural teaching methods proposed by Hu Wenzhong and Gao Yihong,this study begun and it has combined quantitative and qualitative methods together.Research methods include questionnaires,interviews,and classroom observations.Questionnaire-based,interviews and classroom observations were used as an aid.Through the analysis of questionnaires,interviews and classroom observations,we can know the attitudes,methods and suggestions of high school English teachers in Chinese culture in their teaching,which can provide some effective data for this study.The main findings of this study are: teachers generally have a positive attitude and strong interest in Chinese culture,and the importance in teaching is fully affirmed.But many teachers are not proficient in using English to explain the native culture,and many teachers get little involved in the explanation of it in their teaching,which shows that Chinese cultural aphasia does exist in their teaching.The main reasons for this phenomenon are:(1)lack of systematicity about Chinese culture in the textbooks;(2)the bias of the teachers' culture teaching concepts and not familiar with Chinese cultural English expressions;(3)less involvement in the current college entrance examination about Chinese culture;(4)The main teaching method and resource are direct explanation and English textbooks,and the teaching methods and resources are relatively simple.In response to this problem,the author tries to give the following suggestions:(1)integrate textbook content,actively develop school-based textbooks and enrich the teaching content;(2)strengthen the teachers' own quality and carry out the relevant training courses about Chinese culture;(3)adopt a variety of evaluation and teaching methods and carry out cultural special activities;(4)conduct English club activities or lectures related to Chinese culture.