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On the introduction of English teaching in Western culture, the need for

[Abstract] Culture is a group (may be national, it can be national, business, family formation in a given period of thinking, ideas, behavior, customs, habits, representatives, and the overall sense from this group out of all the radiation activities are different cultural backgrounds and social development, the history of precipitation in the form, is a permanent cultural phenomenon. Thus, in learning English, pay attention to the differences in Western culture, to strengthen cultural background knowledge into and precipitation is very necessary, can be specific in-depth understanding of the English-speaking countries, to reduce the in Western culture, the differences in learning English, so make their own to overcome the "mother tongue interference", to develop good habits of mind, the English learn live, the English language teaching and learning.

[Keywords:] Cultural differences vocabulary background
Language is the carrier of Culture, Culture is the language of the show, but also language content of the load present, the domestic terms of students, the process of learning English is also the process of cultural accumulation, while Chinese students are learning Chinese Culture English, more or less impact on English language learning, two Cultures in learning English, will inevitably lead to a variety of cultural differences in teaching order to enable students to better grasp of English, students cross-cultural communicative competence English teachers in the teaching process, the setting should be based on course content, the introduction of Western culture, English-speaking countries in due course to guide students to understand the various cultural backgrounds, to promote student interest in learning English, the elimination of cultural barriers, improve their proficiency.

A study in the importance of Western culture
1. Learning in Western culture to students of cross-cultural capabilities
We are learning the English language teaching materials covering the history of Western society, geography, culture, folk customs and religious beliefs at all levels of information. English language learning, we master the basic knowledge, but also to strengthen the cultural background knowledge accumulation, so that not only make their own to overcome the "mother tongue interference", to develop good habits of mind, but also improve their listening and speaking skills in the teaching process, I found that students tend to translate the English sentence is not fluent, because they do not understand the English sentence structure, grammar, etc. In order to learn English living, teaching is not hard to achieve the real purpose of English language teaching - the English really into life, then, must be in English language teaching in the introduction of the relevant cultural background.

2. Learning and cultural background knowledge will help improve students' reading comprehension
English reading test in English in the larger proportion of English reading ability is a comprehensive test, the subject of a variety of English articles in the English proficiency of the counseling process, I found that students can read the article accurately translate over, but the process of doing the problem, face the choice knowing where to start, this is because they lack the cultural background knowledge, reading it will feel a loss, could not decide, can not understand the meaning of the questions has proved to understand the cultural background knowledge richer, higher quality reading.

3. Learning and cultural background knowledge will help to stimulate students interest in learning English
In the curriculum should be appropriate to introduce cultural background knowledge, to stimulate students interest in learning English for example, in teaching the New Practical English Volume Unit 7 cookery, food and culture of this chapter, involving Chinese and Western food culture differences, Unit 8 celebrating holidays and making friends in this chapter involves the difference in the West festival. I allow students to advance prep, Internet search on diet, holiday, the Chinese and Western cultural differences in knowledge. class group discussions, each group sent a representative of the final presentation , to sum up. During the same time learning English, but also the accumulation of Western culture, but also aroused interest in learning English.

Two cultural background knowledge of teaching content
1. Understand the true meaning of English words
Language is mankind's spiritual wealth accumulated from generation to generation, is the language of the basic vocabulary and elements of one well-known British linguist DA Winking said: "There is no grammar, one can not express many things without words, people can not express anything." on learning English, the term direct impact on their ability to improve the language skills and play.

Students can apply their knowledge of vocabulary to communicate, but do not understand the meaning of words, writing is often a misnomer, so to students in the teaching process into the relevant cultural background knowledge, but also start from the basic vocabulary, the comparison of Chinese and Western meaning, so that students access to relevant information, stimulate their enthusiasm for self-learning, such as: blue (blue in the Chinese culture there is little symbolism, relatively speaking, it is the symbolism of Western culture a little more . Links to free download http://www.hi138.com Blue means the most us are familiar with or "sad" or "grief", and this meaning may be traced back to the earliest usage of the English poet Chaucer, while in C. Gorham 's of Mr. Dolan (1949) where a character says in the lines in: "How would you like to come up to my place and see a blue movie?" blue movie refers to the erotic film. blue chip refers to the early 20th century, blue chip stocks are used, those good performance, stable dividends and earnings of listed companies to issue common stock in 1929 before the arrival of the Great Depression, Baltimore <<Sun>> have so preached: " Agriculture still has too much to reclaim ... ... to become a'blue chip'in the near future. "Another example: English and Chinese in the drugstore to drugstore in different pharmacies only sell Chinese medicines and some medical equipment and medicine related goods, while in the United States, Drugstore addition to selling drugs, they can also concurrently groceries and light meals.

2. English reading and English cultural background knowledge to get the movie
English by listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation skills composition of five, and English is a comprehensive reading skills, read on to master the English language into the English kingdom. Read understood as the foundation of English speaking and writing, the same English reading for learning culture provides a convenient way in the process of reading comprehension, as long as or related to the vocabulary and cultural knowledge, I will require students to accumulate, to remember, to pave the way for cross-cultural exchange, only to understand a country's culture in order to truly understand a country's language.

English film as a financial vision, hearing, speaking in one medium for students to create the best environment for learning English. English language film rich, authentic, popular, is the closest living language of the session it's hard to make up a language textbook teaching to provide students with a more extensive, vivid, lifelike visual visual scene, so that students have the feeling, help students experience real language of communication, improve communication skills, help students to enhance cross-cultural learning sense, therefore, extra-curricular, I also recommend students to see some authentic local film in English, such as <<Shawshank Redemption>> <<Time in America>> <<Forrest Gump>> etc. The original English film is excellent to promote authentic learning English and an important way to improve their English listening, and the most natural and most effective way. the language of film scenes to show the true and solid background of language learning and use of the environment, it can for students
Created to get rid of the shackles of language, and arouse people's sense organs and the brain of a comprehensive response to the linguistic information, and the natural environment to absorb the language. And the original film in English language information provided by context-rich, the language of the film comes from life, close to life After extraction process, the lively, authentic dialogue, verbal expression together with the environment and the conversation the characters look, attitude, etc., will produce an immersive visual effects in film can be seen in the real West cultural background, lifestyle, language patterns and structures.

Culture and language are inseparable, as spiritual and material, so the process of making the teaching of English, we can not simply focus on the accumulation of words and grammar, but also to learn the essence of the English language, therefore, necessary to strengthen the culture of penetration, so that students apply the actual language, correct language, to achieve the real purpose of learning English.

References
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