Teaching culture in the English Classroom

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2009-09-19
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Thisessayarguesthatcultureandlanguageareinseparableandthereforemustbetaughttogether.Itrecognizesthattherearetwowaysofunderstandingtheworldcultureanditisimportanttobeawareofthisinanydiscussiononthesubject.Asuperficialunderstandingoftheconceptofcultureandadeeperunderstandingofcultureinthelanguageofapeople.Italsoarguesthatstudentsmaylearntospeakwithgrammaticalaccuracybutfailtounderstandthediscoursesystemandsobeculturallyinappropriate.English,asaninternationallanguagechallengestheneedforteachingspecificculturalinformationofasuperficialkindandstillneedstoexpoundthedeeperandmoresubtlelinguacultureofthelanguage.Finally,theessayputsforwardthevalueofmoviestudiesasacomprehensiblemeansofteachinglanguagewithitsculture.