The Teaching of Culture in English Language Teaching
88 Citations•2012•
吴月娥
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Whether English teaching should put an emphasis on Big-C Culture or Little-c Culture is discussed, which is likely to solve problems in college English teaching.
Abstract
Language is not only part of culture,but also the carrier.The relationship between them decides the important role of culture teaching in language teaching.However,some problems still exist in college English teaching.For example,classroom English teaching time is not enough for culture teaching;English learners’native language thinking has negative transfer in the target language learning,etc..In order to solve these problems,this paper tends to discuss whether English teaching should put an emphasis on Big-C Culture or Little-c Culture.