Cultivating Students' Cultural Awareness In SEFC Teaching Practice

Language is the carrier of culture. The process of learning a foreign language should be the process of learning the cultural contents of this language at the same time. We may really master a foreign language only when we can understand its cultural connotation. From the perspective of cultural linguistics, to teach a language is to teach another culture, and to learn a language, learn another culture.One of the major purposes of SEFC is to cultivate students' communicative competence in English. Communicative competence contains both language competence and cultural competence, which is subjected to quite a few social and cultural factors. Thus English teachers should make great efforts to cultivate students' cultural awareness. However, in SEFC teaching practice, little attention has been paid to the cultural connotation of the language; both teachers and students are all poor in cultural awareness.in view of the current situation in SEFC teaching practice, the writer of this paper is about to explore the principles and methods of the culture-loaded teaching; In the hope of finding the way to cultivate students' cultural awareness and communicative competence along with students' linguistic competence, the writer has also carried out some experiments through her own teaching practice to see to it that these methods are applicable and efficient. The experiments show that culture-loaded teaching helps students develop both their language competence and communicative competence.