Study Of Cultural Factors In Foreign Language Teaching

Language is the carrier and crystal of culture. It has close relationship with culture. We should not only focus on the explanation of the sentences and grammars of the target language in foreign language teaching, but also attach importance to the introduction of its culture knowledge. We must connect language and its culture, or it is impossible for us to totally understand and master this language. How to infiltrate cultural factors into foreign language teaching is one of the issues that most educators have been discussing recently. Many of them have developed effective teaching methods. The paper introduces the relationship between language and culture, their origination, their development, the significance and their functions. It also puts forward some concrete teaching method. The purpose is to have learners make the most of the learned culture knowledge to make valid communication, therefore cultivate the consciousness of the cultural awareness to lay a better foundation of their ability of cross-cultural communication.The paper is divided into four chapters.Chapterâ… is an introduction, stating the significance of theoretic and practice in culture teaching of foreign language teaching.Chapterâ…¡mainly concentrates on the origin, functions, and notions of culture factors in foreign language teaching, also on the relationship of culture factors and language and the significance of cross-cultural communication.Chapterâ…¢illustrates the importance of developing cultural awareness, the difference between Chinese and English cultures, problems when communication and discussion in teaching methods.Chapterâ…£concludes the research and give some advice to the educators on the research in this field.