从中西方文化差异探讨大学英语教学中的文化教育
关键词 文化交际，文化差异，英语教学，文化教育
毕 业 论 文 外 文 摘 要
Title On Intercultural education in College English Teaching from the differences between Chinese and western cultures
Abstract
In the background of globalization, intercultural communication plays an important role. The cultivation of intercultural communication competence and consciousness has become an important subject and goal of college English teaching.
However, there are many differences existing between Chinese and western cultures. We need to recognize the differences and analyze the occurrence of them. We should also realize the influence of cultural differences on English teaching and improve students’ the ability of intercultural communication.
This paper endeavors to analyze the differences between Chinese and western cultures and their influence and importance on cultural education in English teaching. This paper also discusses the importance for college students to learn cultural differences between Chinese and western in English study.
Keywords intercultural communication; cultural difference; English teaching; intercultural education
Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Definition 1
1.2 Background of the study 2
2. The differences between Chinese and western cultures 3
2.1 Origins of Chinese Culture 3
2.2 Origins of western culture 5
2.3 Cultural Differences in Daily Conversation 6
2.3.1 Ways of Addressing 6
2.3.2 Greeting and Farewells 7
2.3.3 Idioms, Proverbs and Sayings 7
2.3.4 Compliment and Miscellaneous Social Amenities 8
3 Methods to deal with the differences in CET related to Cultural Education 10
3.1 The importance 10
3.2 The Problem of Chinese in Studying English 11
3.3 Methods 11
3.3.1 Direct introduction 11
3.3.2 Contrastive analysis 12
3.3.3 Error analysis 13
3.3.4 Communicative teaching approach Learning 13
3.3.5 Holding lectures 14
3.3.6 Singing English songs 15
3.3.7 Watching films and television programs 15
Conclusion 16
Acknowledgements 17
Bibliography 18
1 Introduction
With the rapid globalization, cultural differences between China and western countries greatly influence English Teaching. Intercultural education becomes more and more urgent. The cultivation of intercultural communication competence and consciousness has become an important subject and goal of college English teaching. We need to recognize the differences and analyze the origins of them. We should also seek methods to deal with them and improve students’ ability of intercultural communication.
1.1 Definition
Generally speaking, culture refers to the total sum of the material and spiritual wealth created by human beings in the process of historical development, including three aspects respectively, material culture, system culture and psychology culture. Material culture refers to the human’s creation of all kinds of material civilization, including traffic tools, clothes, daily articles, etc, which are a visible dominant culture; System culture and psychology culture, separately, refer to life system, family system and social system and the way of thinking, religious belief, aesthetic temperament and interest, which are invisible and which belong to the recessive culture. Particular culture is to show common social habits of its people, such as the basic necessities, customs, life style, behavior manner.
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