A Study On The Implementation Of Culture Teaching In High School ESL Classroom

Language is a part of culture and also a mirror of culture. Through the language of a country, people are able to glimpse of this country colorful culture. The final purpose of learning a foreign language is to obtain the ability of learning foreign culture. In year2003, cross cultural awareness was the first time explicitly promulgated in Ordinary High School English Curriculum Standard as one of the goals of English course in high school. New Curriculum Standard not only clearly points out the cultural awareness contains cultural knowledge, cultural understanding, cross-culture communication awareness and ability, but makes out the specific content standards. This fully shows that culture teaching and the cultivation of the cross-culture awareness has been from a concept into high school classroom, and penetrates into practical ESL classroom.English class is the main platform for the students to learn language knowledge, and so there should be more teaching about the foreign culture in the English class teaching. In fact, there are many ways to complete the culture teaching and permeation, among which the most effective one is to integrate the culture teaching into the English class teaching. Making the culture teaching as the background will help the student know the real process of the language, thus to help students to grasp the development of the language and they can have deep understanding of the language, so it is easy to inspire their interest and ability of innovation and creation. The language developed in some special history period can also reflect the culture phenomenon of the country and the people speaking language, which is helpful for students to form the good individuality.The paper makes a thorough inquiry on culture and language (they are inseparable), and analyses the meaning of the culture teaching in ESL classroom in high school. Based on the survey of the current situation of the ESL classroom in our city and the summary of the topics in the textbooks, the author analyses the urgency and the feasibility of the culture teaching. Also the author analyses the relationship between the culture teaching and ESL classroom, focusing on the real examples of the English class teaching in high school, which shows the importance of the culture teaching.