2017届福建省光泽第一中学高中英语教师论文：《A Study on Culture Teaching in Senior English Class》_高考复习指南

2017届福建省光泽第一中学高中英语教师论文：《A Study on Culture Teaching in Senior English Class》

　　According to Chinese linguist Zhang Zhanyi’s theory (1990), culture can be classified into “culture as knowledge” which refers to the verbal and nonverbal cultural factors that indirectly interfere with the proper transmission of message in the interaction process and “culture in communication” which refers to the verbal and nonverbal cultural factors that directly interfere with the proper transmission of message when people of different cultural backgrounds are interacting with each others. Thus, the “culture as knowledge” and “culture in communication” combine to form a whole system in culture teaching; either aspect plays a rather essential role in the formation of students’ cultural awareness. And it is necessary to find out what the kinds of culture are contained in the New Senior English for China respectively.

　　On one hand, most of cultural content is “culture as knowledge” in NSEFC. According to Grade 7-8 of the cultural demands in the new curriculum standard, there are following main topics of “culture as knowledge” in demand. They are famous people, the circumstances of politics and economy, mass media, art, history, national geography, life style and social activity in English countries, global culture, religion and belief culture, and comparison between Chinese and English culture. Examining the whole series of the new textbook, the author find that many units concern about famous people, art, life style and geography while little is mentioned about the politics, economy, mass media, and the comparison between Chinese and Western culture. For example, B1Unit5, B4Unit1, B5Unit1, etc. are about famous people; B1Unit3, B3Unit1&2, B4Unit3, etc. are about life style and social activities; B2Unit1, B6Unit1, B8Unit4&5, etc. are about art and history; B3Unit5, B5Unit2, B6Unit5, etc, are about national geography; only one unit relates to the comparison between Chinese and Western culture and no unit covers the politics, economy and mass media in English countries. In my viewpoint, it is unbalanced to make such arrangement of “culture as knowledge” in the new textbooks.