Cultivation of Cultural Awareness in English Teaching

DOI

10.2991/icmess-18.2018.368How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Culture; Cultural awareness; Cultivation; English teaching

Abstract

Culture cannot be separated from language, so cultural teaching should be integrated into language teaching. However, most English teachers usually incorrectly interpret cultural teaching as the imparting of pure cultural knowledge and neglect the cultivation of students’ cultural consciousness. This paper firstly expounds the differences and relationship between culture and cultural awareness, and emphasizes the connotation of cultural awareness. Then the importance of cultivating cultural awareness is discussed. Aiming at the necessity of cultivating students’ cultural awareness in school, this paper puts forward some ideas of cultivating cultural awareness. To cultivate students’ cultural awareness, teachers should not only improve and strengthen their own quality, realize the relationship between language and culture, and master good teaching ability, but also teach cultural knowledge through a variety of activities in teaching.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenjing Sun
PY  - 2018/06
DA  - 2018/06
TI  - Cultivation of Cultural Awareness in English Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1666
EP  - 1669
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icmess-18.2018.368
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