A Research on the Existing Problems in EFL Teaching and the Underlying Causes

作     者：平吉 

作者机构：西安欧亚学院外国语学院外语系本科教研室 

出 版 物：《读与写(教育教学刊)》 (Read and Write Periodical)

年 卷 期：2009年第6卷第11期

页      面：13-13页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：cultural awareness cultural background knowledge EFL teaching intercultural communication power distance 

摘      要：Language is the carrier of culture and it conveys culture,so the language teaching should contain culture teaching. In EFL teaching,teachers should not only teach the necessary English knowledge like the grammar,sentences paraphrasing and structure analysis but also consciously introduce the related cultural information like the cultural back-ground knowledge,so that students can strengthen the language learning in their culture learning. This thesis mainly attempts to analyze the disadvantage of memory-based approach to learning English,the cultural reason for Chinese students’ tendency to rely on the teachers and some common pragmatic errors made by the Chinese students in their oral communication in English duo to their lack of IC knowledge.