中学英语教学中英语谚语与文化教学：跨文化视角

论文摘要

随着当今社会生活和经济活动日益全球化,跨文化交际的需要不断增长。《普通高中英语课程标准》(2003)提出了发展学生跨文化交际的意识和基本的跨文化交际能力的要求。语言是文化的载体,只有真正理解语言中所包含的文化涵义,才能够真正掌握和驾驭好一门语言。长期以来,我国中学英语教学偏重语法教学,而对文化教学重视不够,使学生在实际情景中不能有效地进行交际。如今,随着对外交流的增多,人们逐渐发现以语言形式为中心的英语教学己不能满足社会需要。文化因素越来越受到重视。本文分析了通过提高英语学习者的文化意识从而提高跨文化交际能力的可行性,并为中学英语教学中如何增强学生的跨文化意识这一教学目标找寻有效的方法。谚语是一个民族语言的精华,展示了其民族文化特征。研究英汉谚语的民族特点及其文化差异无疑对学习英语语言和文化大有裨益。本文通过一些典型的实例,阐述了英语谚语的来源及其文化内涵。总之,在中学英语教学从跨文化视角进行英汉谚语对比,对进一步理解英谚中的文化内涵及其恰当使用都很有必要。英谚欣赏不失为整合语言教学与文化教学的一条有益的途径。

论文目录

• 中文摘要
• Abstract
• 中文文摘
• Contents
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 Background of the study
• 1.2 Modern views in culture teaching and learning
• 1.3 Objectives of the study and research questions
• 1.3.1 Research orientation and objectives
• 1.3.2 Key research questions
• 1.4 Rationale of the study
• 1.5 Organization of the present thesis
• Chapter Two Literature Review
• 2.1 What's culture
• 2.2 Relationship between language and culture
• 2.3 Rationale of culture teaching
• Chapter Three Origins of Proverbs
• 3.1 What is proverb
• 3.2 Origins of proverbs
• 3.2.1 Proverbs from religions
• 3.2.2 Proverbs from literary works
• 3.2.3 Proverbs from human activities
• 3.2.4 Proverbs from different geographic environment
• Chapter Four Culture Teaching in China's Middle Schools
• 4.1 The goal of culture teaching
• 4.1.1 Cultivating cross-cultural awareness
• 4.1.2 Developing students' cross-cultural communication competence
• 4.2 Current problems of culture teaching and learning
• 4.3 Approaches to culture teaching
• Chapter Five Appreciation of English Proverbs for Culture Teaching
• 5.1 Cultural elements in proverbs
• 5.1.1 Words with different connotations
• 5.1.2 Exploring values and attitudes through proverbs
• 5.2 The role of appreciation of English proverbs in EFL teaching
• Chapter Six Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements