Abstract

In recent years, cultural awareness in language teaching has raised increasingly widespread concern in the field of education. Foreign language teaching should not only attach importance to the improvement of  students' language skills, but also to the cultivation of their cultural awareness; attention should be paid to the introduction of western culture and the strengthening of Chinese cultural infiltration as well. This dissertation is mainly written based on the relationship between language and culture to reveal the importance of Chinese culture teaching in English classes in primary school. Through the study of the status quo of the cultural infiltration in English classes in primary school, the author put forward suggestions for Chinese culture introduction from three aspects.

Keywords : primary school English;  culture teaching;  Chinese culture

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction..1

2. Language and Culture.2

2.1 Definition of culture.2

2.2 Definition of  language.3

2.3 Relationship between culture and language.4

3. The Current State of Culture Teaching in English classes.5

3.1 The development of culture teaching.5

3.2 The problem of culture teaching in English classes.7

4. The Importance of Chinese Culture teaching in English Classes in Primary School.9

4.1 The necessity of learning Chinese culture..9

4.2 The establishment of the New Curriculum Standard10

4.3 The characteristics of primary school students 12

5. The Suggestions for Integrating Chinese Culture into English Classes in Primary School13

5.1 To Reform Teaching material ..13

5.2 To Permeate students’ cultural consciousness in extracurricular

activities.14

5.3 To Improve teachers’ cultural literacy..15

6. Conclusion ..16

References. 17