Abstract: Language and culture are closely related. Language is influenced by culture, but also reflects culture. Language is an indispensable part of culture. Learning language means learning culture. So in English teaching we can not be divorced from culture to talk about language itself only. On the contrary, it is very important that cultural background knowledge is infiltrated into English language teaching. So English teachers should not only give instruction in English language knowledge, but also attach importance to teaching background and cultural knowledge to students, and English language teaching should be combined with culture teaching organically, so that we can further improve the English language teaching effects.

Key words: Culture teaching; English language teaching

摘要：语言与文化密切相关,语言受文化影响，同时又反映文化，它是文化不可缺少的一部分，因此，语言学习的过程同时也是文化学习的过程.所以在英语教学中不能脱离文化而只讲语言本身。在英语教学中，文化背景知识的渗透是非常重要的。教师不仅要讲解英语语言知识，同时也要重视文化知识背景的传授，将英语语言教学与文化教学有机地结合起来，进一步提高英语语言教学效果。

关键词：文化教学；英语语言教学

Introduction
Language is a part of culture and also a carrier of culture. To human being, it is not only a tool for communication, but also one of the important means to reflect the cultural characteristics of one nation. Language reflects this nation’s customs and cultural practices, the historical evolution and development. However, every aspect of culture has influenced the expression of language in a way. Therefore, language and culture complement with each other and are closely related. Learning language means learning culture. Learning a language, if people do not understand the national or the state historical background and the cultural practices of the native speaking country, it will be difficult for them to communicate with the native speakers, and the cultural differences will be caused cultural barriers between them in communication. In a word, only those who truly understand and grasp the cultural connotation of the language can truly understand and master the language and do better on cross-cultural communication.

Foreign language teaching is not only language teaching, but also culture teaching. The relevance of cultural knowledge about the target countries in language teaching has always been emphasized but seldom dealt with adequately in classes in China. In a long time, teachers concentrate their main energies on the teaching of language knowledge in English language teaching, and ignore the interaction of the use of language and cultural factors. The students who have a good knowledge of grammar are trained by this way, and have a large vocabulary. However, the students lack the capability of using the appropriate language at the right occasion. And sometimes students even use the language communication standards of the ethnic culture to apply to the foreign language, what usually resulted in making jokes. Language is an important part of national culture and the carrier of the national culture, so in the language materials, the chapters, sentences, even every word, all of which contain the nation’s cultural information. And in daily life, the communication contains a cultural world outlook and mode of thinking. In general, social life and practice has proved that people who only master the knowledge of language can not be guaranteed to make a successful communication with those who have different cultural backgrounds. This paper reveals the mutual relations of language and culture by understanding the concept of language and culture. This paper also expatiates on the importance of culture teaching in English language teaching and the methods of culture teaching in English language teaching. It bring forward the views that only shaded culture teaching into English language teaching, the English language teaching can be carried out better.
The first part of this paper will give some definition about culture, and draw out the relationship between culture and language. The second part is going to explain the influence of culture on English learning and teaching. The last part of this paper gives the definition about English language teaching and culture teaching, then though some examples to prove how important the culture teaching in English language teaching is, and at last the author expatiated on the methods of culture teaching in English language teaching.

1 Language and culture
Language and culture are closely related. Language is influenced by culture, but also reflects culture. Language is an indispensable part of culture.
1. 1 Definition of culture
The concept of culture is very complicated, and it is also a complicated social phenomenon. It exists everywhere; including everything and it is involved in all the aspects of social life. Thus, it is considered as the sum of all the achievements got from social and spiritual life. Generally speaking, Culture means the total way of life of a people, including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and languages that characterize the life of the human community. Culture can be divided into two parts: one is Formal Culture, or Knowledge Culture. It includes all the accomplishments in social and physical science and highly reflects humans’ material and moral civilization. The other is Common Culture, or say Communicative Culture. It has a series of different features in daily life, such as customs, ceremonies, manners and holidays, etc. In addition, people’s actions or speeches all directly or indirectly reflect their self-cultivation.转贴于酷文网-论文下载中心 http://www.coolwen.net

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