A Tentative Study of the Presentation of Culture in Present College English Textbooks

Chun Mei Wu

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.63-64.33

Paper Titles

A Brief Study on Teaching Materials for English Autonomous Learning in China Based on Information Technology
p.17

The Research of Authentication Framework Based on PKI and ID-PKI
p.21

Ranking Method of Interval Numbers Based on Quantity Property
p.25

Synthesizing Effect Model Based on Quasi-Linear Function in Intelligent Materials System
p.29

A Tentative Study of the Presentation of Culture in Present College English Textbooks
p.33

Research on the Frame of Entrepreneurial Based on Environment View
p.37

The Strategy Research on Dynamic Discovery of Grid Resource
p.41

Research on Total Error of Anti-Radiation Missile against Target Radiation Source Shutdown
p.47

Design of Multilayer Substrates Microstrip Patch Antenna for Fuze Application
p.51

HomeApplied Mechanics and MaterialsApplied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 63-64A Tentative Study of the Presentation of Culture...

A Tentative Study of the Presentation of Culture in Present College English Textbooks

Abstract:

Cultivating students’ intercultural communication competence( ICC) is the focus of college English teaching. As the textbook is seen as the major vehicle to transmit culture, importance has been attached to the presentation of culture in textbooks, which looms large in students’ ICC. Based on two surveys , the author finds that positive aspects of foreign culture and native culture are presented in textbooks, however, foreign culture is so much in proportion to native culture that ultimately results in students’ failure in ICC. Teachers shoul balance two cultures in teaching, and launch a dialogue between them on the basis of the choice , intergration and balanced utilization of the two cultures. With the two-culture-dialogue, students can promote their ICC effectively.

You might also be interested in these eBooks

Advanced Research on Mechanical Engineering, Industry and Manufacturing Engineering

View Preview

Info:

Periodical:

Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 63-64)

Pages:

33-36

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.63-64.33

Citation:

Cite this paper

Online since:

June 2011

Authors:

Chun Mei Wu

Keywords:

College English Teaching, Foreign Culture, ICC, Native Culture, Textbook

Export:

RIS, BibTeX

Price:

Permissions CCC:

Request Permissions

Permissions PLS:

Request Permissions

Сopyright:

Citation:

References

[1] College English Curriculum Requirements ( for Trial Implementation )，2004， National Education Department. Shanghai: Shanghai foreign language publishing house ( 2004): p.32.

Google Scholar

[2] Samovar, L. A. & R.E. Poter. Communication Between Communication. Illinois: National Textbook Company (2004): p.48.

Google Scholar

[3] Kramsch, C. Context and culture in Language teaching , Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (1999).

Google Scholar

[4] Seelye. H. N. 1984 Teaching Culture: Strategies for Intercultural Communication . Illinois: National Textbook Company (1984).

Google Scholar

[5] Lado, R. How to compare two cultures . In J. M. Valdes. Culture Bound: Bridging the cultural Gap in language teaching . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press( 1986): pp.52-63.

DOI: 10.1177/026565908700300331

Google Scholar