OnCultivatingStudents’InterculturalAwarenessinEnglishReadingTeachingatMiddleSchool

毕业论文〔设计)1.IntroductionIn China,there exists a common phenomenon to our English learners,that is,although many students have acquired four skills:listening,speaking,reading andwriting according to the demand of our traditional syllabus,they often make mistakesin application of language in real life.Even they can make up grammatically andsemantically correct sentences,which are not appropriate or feasible in the dailycommunication;what's worse,sometimes it will violate cultural principle in the targetlanguage community,and thus communicative failure occurs at times.The reason isthat modern English teachers often ignore cultural teaching and spend a lot of time inEnglish language teaching.Researches abroad on language and culture in the past decades are various.In theearly 1920s,Malinowski (1923)argues that the study of any language,spoken by apeople who live under conditions different from our own and possess different culture,must be carried out in conjunction with the study of their culture and of theirenvironment.(Chang Zonglin,2004:26)Since 1980s,the research of relationbetween language and culture has gained more and more attention.The book Cultureand Communication (Hu Wenzhong,1994:6)gives us a systematic introduction ofnew outcomes about relation between culture and language,the content and method ofcultural teaching,etc.In fact,Cultures differ from one another.Each culture is unique."Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering thepronunciation,grammar,words and idioms.It means learning to see the world as2