英语教学中的跨文化交际(1)(5)
2017-02-05 01:04
导读：Another reason for teachers’ affecting their concentration on culture teaching lies in the time limitation. Most of the class time has been spent in learning vocabulary, structures and consolidation
Another reason for teachers’ affecting their concentration on culture teaching lies in the time limitation. Most of the class time has been spent in learning vocabulary, structures and consolidation in order to memorize those linguistic elements and reproduce them, and many English teachers have too many classes, examinations for students make English teachers very busy and tired. These give teachers little time and opportunity to learn and conduct research, though they knew that teaching research could help a lot to their English teaching. Teachers are not sure about how to master new teaching approaches, or how to cultivate students’ communicative competence.
(ⅲ)Financial problem
Besides, some English teachers are unable to devote themselves to teaching because of financial problem, they are even eager to change their profession.
3.2.2 Subjective problems
(ⅰ) Limited experience
Teachers in China are usually considered to have limited experience with the target culture, and in fact few teachers can offer some experience in foreign language classes. Most of them are not qualified to deal with culture effectively and confidently because they haven’t enough necessary knowledge. On the one hand, most of English teacher are trained in the Chinese environment. On the other hand, they seldom read books on language teaching theory. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are not capable of dealing with the matter effectively.
(ⅱ) Over-confident
On the other hand, there is a prevalent phenomenon in China that a great number of English teachers tend to be over-confident about their competence and performance, arguing that they already have enough knowledge to teach English. These kinds of makes them neglect their development. For these teachers, it is important to change their attitude. To solve this problem teachers should realize that his/her own development is the process of lifelong in the teaching profession; it involves many activities, so that to achieve personal and professional growth for teachers. Teachers’ development must be a vital component in teacher education. In order to improve teaching and become a qualified English teacher, he/she should master relevant disciplines such as Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Social linguistics, Psychology, pedagogy, second language and language teaching. In some countries, including the Netherlands and the, studying and working and try to gain abroad the high level of language proficiency among foreign language teachers.
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These problems indicate that the English teachers’ foreign language culture and quality cannot nearly meet the requirements of modern English teaching. We really have a very long way to go.
4. Principles and ways of culture teaching
4.1 Principles for culture teaching
Culture is important for learners, and cultural teaching and cross-cultural communication are inseperatable. Teaching culture will help us have an effective cross-cultural communication, on the other hand, effective cross-cultural communication can offer us a good cultural knowledge, so we must pay enough attention to it. First of all, let’s talk some principles about it. Maybe they can help us get a effective learning or teaching.
