On Cultural Introduction To The Teaching Of Non-English Majors

The teaching of culture in language teaching is a simple yet very complex issue that has been debated for over a century. The ultimate goal of language teaching is not only to improve learner's linguistic competence but also his communicative competence. However, culture teaching has long been ignored in China's TEFL (teaching English as a foreign language) practice. As a result, learner's communicative competence was not adequately developed.With the development and introduction of Communicative Language Teaching, more and more researchers and teachers have begun to attach importance to culture teaching.Based on the unawareness of the importance of culture among the non-English majors and the lack of cultural input in practical classroom teaching, the present author has tried to introduce culture through every means and collected a lot of firsthand data, and has helped students improve their intercultural communicative competence. Thus learning a language is inseparable from learning its culture. As a conclusion, the author proposed that cultural introduction greatly improves non-English-major students'communicative competence by raising their cultural awareness and cultural competence is an integral part of communicative competence.