On Cultural Awareness in Middle School English Teaching

DOI

10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural awareness, difference,cross-cultural communication,English teaching

Abstract

This paper focuses on enhancing students’ ability of cross-cultural communication and their understanding of cultural differences especially in attitudes and values. Teachers can obtain the goal by providing cultural information, experiencing culture via role-plays, explaining culture with authentic materials and encouraging students to communicate with native English speakers. This article suggests that in middle school English teaching, teachers can provide a relaxed atmosphere for students to have an idea of the differences between their own culture and others’ and explain the differences to strengthen students’ cross-cultural awareness. It is expected that students can learn a second language not only from the aspect of grammar but of both language and culture.

Copyright

© 2015, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Zhang
AU  - Caiyun Zhang
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - On Cultural Awareness in Middle School English Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 161
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-15.2015.40
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