A Study On Culture Teaching In English Classes In Primary School

With the increase of exchanges between China and western countries, Chinese people have come to find that due to the lack of profound knowledge of the western culture,"cultural shock"or"cultural conflict"often arises when Chinese people communicate with the foreigners.In traditional English teaching, knowledge of language is paid too much attention to, and words, sentences and grammar are taken as the dominant factors, being separated from the culture. Chinese English teachers don't give the enough value to the culture. As a result, many Chinese students have learned a considerably large number of English words by heart and they can make grammatically correct sentences, but their actual communicative competence proves to be quite disappointing. In view of the above, English teaching should not be focused solely on language and skills but should be aimed at developing students'communicative competence. Therefore, this paper points out that language should be taught with culture even at the primary school. Teachers ought to familiarize the Chinese students with culture knowledge through different channels so as not to only to enrich and improve English teaching, but also to help our students to communicate with native speakers of English in a correct, proper and decent way.