Cultural Introduction in English Teaching
- DOI
- 10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.212How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- English teaching; culture introduction; vocabulary; discourse; grammar; context; reading
- Abstract
Culture is a complicated synthesis, in view of English teaching is concerned, involved in the history of the English-speaking countries, geography, local conditions and customs, traditions, way of life, literature and art, behavior norms and values, etc., each aspect has very rich contents. Language is an integral part of culture, culture of import can stimulate students' interests, meet the requirements of language learning, promote language teaching, has a positive impact on language learning. Only mastered the relevant cultural knowledge, it can use English correctly in intercultural communication. Therefore, cultural introduction is an important content of English teaching. This article from the "reveal cultural connotations of the vocabulary, excavate the cultural information of discourse, blend in the culture of the grammatical perspective, create a real cultural context, and penetrate cultural knowledge in reading" and so on cultural import strategies are proposed.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shuang Lu PY - 2017/01 DA - 2017/01 TI - Cultural Introduction in English Teaching BT - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1027 EP - 1031 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.212 DO - 10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.212 ID - Lu2017/01 ER -