OnCultivatingCultureinMiddleSchoolEnglishTeaching

毕业论文（设计）AbstractWith the development of globalization,China entering into WTO and the comingOlympic Games in 2008,international contacts have become more and more frequent.Our society is in great need of personnel who have a good command of knowledgeand are able to communicate with people from different countries.How to makeEnglish teaching meet the needs of social and economic development has become anurgent task to English educators.Therefore,developing students'interculturalcommunicative competence has been paid much attention in English teaching.Nowadays,it has been prescribed into the New English Curriculum Standards.Obviously,middle school English teachers are facing the challenge of exploringappropriate means of culture instruction in their teaching contents.However,becauseof the testing system,teachers'academic proficiency,students'attitude and so on,culture introduction has been ignored in middle schools and students'interculturalcompetence is poorly developed.Since language and culture are inseparable,onecannot master the spirit of a foreign language without knowing its culture.Cultureteaching should be given priority in English teaching.In the hope of improvingculture teaching in middle school English classes,practical principles and effectivetechniques are suggested.In this article,the author proceeds with the understanding of culture,thencombines with the teaching practice as a intern in Wuhua Middle School to introducesome useful methods and ways through analyzing the differences between Chineseand Western cultures,discusses how to help students to learn culture differences at the