The Cultural Transmission In The Vocational College English Teaching

As the research of English teaching deepens in our country, more attention has been paid to the cultural transmission and awareness. It has been widely accepted that the process of learning a foreign language should be the process of learning the cultural context of this language at the same time. English teaching is not only a transmission of language skills, but also an integrated teaching of language and its culture. The purpose of English teaching in the vocational education is to cultivate the students'practical application competence in foreign language learning. Based on this, the author tries to explore the problems about the cultural transmission in the vocational college English teaching.This thesis has been written on the base of research achievements of scholars at home and abroad on culture teaching since the 1960's. A detailed analysis of the socio-cultural test and the teachers'survey shows that cultural factors play an important role in college English teaching and the writer tries to discuss deeply the cultural transmission in it. Based on theories of culture teaching, the author of the thesis advocates that it is necessary to introduce the culture knowledge to non-English majors in class, which can be done from several aspects, which are vocabulary, translation, reading and writing. In addition, to facilitate the culture teaching, corresponding measures should be taken beyond the class. These include many activities out of class, such as providing lectures, helping them reading in order to enlarge their knowledge and encouraging them to contact with foreign people. To achieve this purpose, college English teachers should possess bilingual competence as well as bicultural competence. Teachers should also command good teaching techniques of teaching culture in class.This thesis consists of the introduction and six chapters. The introduction is a brief introduction to the necessity of culture teaching as well as noticeable defects in the current practice of culture teaching in ET. Chapter one makes a general review of the history of target culture teaching and relevant research at home and abroad, some research achievements and the present situation of culture teaching. Chapter two is about theoretical foundations. It deals with some definition of language and culture, and discusses not only the relationship between language and culture, but also the reasons why culture teaching is so important and essential in language teaching. Chapter three gives a report on designing of an empirical research which is conducted by the author through a socio-cultural test and a questionnaire among the Weifang Vocational College students and teachers in order to obtain the objective and relatively reliable information about the current status of culture teaching in the vocational colleges. Chapter four shows the analysis of the previous research and the implications for vocational college English teaching. Chapter five provides several practical methods in order to give teachers some practical advice to make culture teaching more and more successful. Chapter six works as a conclusion. It summarizes the main contents of this thesis.In short, both theory and practice show that culture teaching is inseparable with language teaching. As long as it is utilized properly, much better teaching effects can be attained.