The purpose of this paper is to draw our attention to the cultural background knowledge。 The methods to improve the students’ reading capacity is to focus on the cultural background knowledge。 Thus, in this process of English teaching about cultural background, the junior middle school teachers can create English learning situation; dig hidden information and improve teaching methods to make the students’ reading ability improved gradually。文献综述

II。 English Reading and Cultural Background

2。1 English Reading

Reading is with the thoughtful thinking, you can understand and receive information from the paper。 Therefore, if you want to become a language knowledge master, at first you should have a good foundation, which is an important process to obtaining information。 It’s one of the main way for people to acquire knowledge and communicate with the outside world。 The quality of access to outside information is completely determined by reading ability。 Reading ability is a crucial factor, and it is also the important principle for example our foreign language level。 Therefore, the improvement of reading ability is very pivotal。 Reading comprehension is to read the knowledge, from there you can get information from the conversation。 On the way of reading and teaching, realizing the soul of the article is an important character in it, which is a reflection of a kind of language comprehensive ability。 Improving reading comprehension ability helps people to correctly understand the various things and communicate in English fluently and accurately。 Pearson and Johnson (1978) have redefined the meaning of the reading comprehension as “a bridge connected the old and new knowledge”。 They stressed its importance。 So, to improve reading comprehension ability doesn’t just mean to enrich vocabulary 。If you expand your knowledge of background, it would be beautiful。来:自[优E尔L论W文W网www.chuibin.com +QQ752018766-

2。2 Cultural Background

Carrel (1983) argue that background knowledge is made up by three parts: context resemblance and fluency。 Context means the relevant contents related to the text, familiarity refers to readers’ understanding of the text content, and the diaphaneity of cultural knowledge refers to pick up the textual structure。 Carrel’s theory about three parts are actually the connotation of the general background。 Reading process is to us related language knowledge and other professional knowledge at the same time。 Culture background is a complex social phenomenon, is bound to exist between different social cultural differences。 Culture contains the language knowledge, it is a reflection of culture background, and the tools for exchange idea about culture。 Whatever language be sure to have its’ own part。 In summary, it has a deeply influence to hold the meaning of the paper。 It is directly impact Chinese students understanding of the articles。