论英语教学中的中西文化差异及其对学习结果的影响

论英语教学中的中西文化差异及其对学习结果的影响

【摘要】不同的民族有不同的文化背景。对中国学生来说,在他们的学习过程中必然存在中国与西方英语国家的民族文化差异。这些差异对他们的学习结果有很大的负面影响。因此,在英语教学中不可忽视中西文化差异。本文主要从中西文化差异产生的原因,差异的表现进而谈到这些差异对高中学生学习成绩的影响。

【Abstract】

Different countries have different cultural backgrounds. To Chinese students, the differences in national cultural backgrounds between China and the English speaking countries exist inevitably during their English learning. While these differences have passive influence on their learning achievements. Therefore, the cultural differences can not be ignored in English teaching. This thesis mainly refers to the courses of cultural differences between China and western countries, the manifestation and further talk about the effects on students’ English learning achievements in High School.

【Keywords】cultural differences effects learning achievements English teaching

Most of students think that learning English is just the thing for them to master well the pronunciations, intonations, grammars and English words. Thus, as long as their pronunciations and intonations are perfect, the grammars are accurate and the numbers of words are huge, they say their English learning are just fine. In fact, it is not what they think. Learning language means not only studying the forms and structures of language, but also understanding the social functions of language and their factors. As to learning English, he or she must know about the histories of English speaking countries, and their geographical features, local conditions, traditional customs, ways of life and value concept and so on. That’s to say, as a teacher of English , we may pay more attention to cultivate the students’ cultural consciousness, make them comprehend the cultural differences between China and western countries, and improve their abilities of cross-cultural communication as well as their learning achievements.

1. The concept of culture

The concept of culture, actually, is very wide. People living in different history periods understood and explained it in different ways. Also people who lived in different areas understood it differently. So it is different for us to define “culture” accurately.

1.1Understanding the concept of culture in China