Research Proposal
The Teaching of Culture in the English Language Education
By Bai Yazhe
I. Introduction
In teaching English as a foreign language,the importance of teaching culture has been widely recognized. However how to teach culture in foreign language education is a problem faced by language educators all over the world. In the present thesis concerning linguistic theories and various ways of teaching foreign culture in the English classroom will be surveyed and studied in the light of Chinese situation. The present thesis stresses that culture teaching is very essential in the English language education. The teaching of language and the teaching of culture are of the same importance in the English classroom.
Language and culture are closely related. In foreign language education, the definition of culture teaching should include all the human achievements of civilization and the ways of life and the different habits of people. Culture differences are reflected in languages and communicative activities. Furthermore it makes great difference in communication whether learners can understand or know the cultural differences, cultural rules, and even the cultural taboos.
However, in traditional approaches to language teaching,the aims of a language teaching course are very often defined with reference to the
four " language skills ": understanding speech, s
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