Abstract
Under the trend of globalization, people with various cultural backgrounds meet great chanllenge while having effective communication. As for having a nice English language command, people basicaly need to understand English culture, experience and understand the differences between the English culture and the native culture, hold linguistic competence and intercultural communicative competence.
China has experienced a set of English teaching reforms, but ended up with very disappointing results: students have great linguistic competence but with weak social cultural abilities, oral English abilities and intercultural competence.
Language communication, in some way, is culture communication, in order to have better ability of communicating, students have to know and understand enough culture knowledge. Based on the culture background, students can use it in daily English communication. This dissertation will analyze the problems in college oral English education, digest the subtle and deep reasons which cause the students weaknesses of intercultural communicative abilities, look back to the reforms of language teaching methodology in order to collect positive and negative lessons in oral English language teaching. College Oral English Teaching Model Based on Intercultural Communication.
Key words: the relationship between language and culture; intercultural communication; culture input in English teaching
Contents
1.Introduction 1
1.1. recent conditions 1
1.2. related studies 1
1.3. aim of the dissertion 2
2.The Definition of Language and Culture 2
2.1 What is language 2
2.2 What is culture 3
3. The Relationship Between Language and Culture 3
3.1 The Influence of Language on Culture 3
3.1.1 Language is an Essential Part of Culture 3
3.2 The Influence of Culture on Language 4
3.2.1 Culture is the Foundation on Which Language Forms and Develpes 4
3.2.2Culture is the Decisive Factor for Language Use 4
4. Overcoming Pragmatic Failures 6
4.1 Some Pragmatic Failures of Chinese Speakers in Communication with Native English Speakers 6
4.1.1 Pragma-linguistic Failure 6
4.1.2. Socio-pragmatic Failure 7
4.2. How do Pragmatic Failures Occur 8
5.How Culture teaching Should Be Conducted 8
5.1 Preparation and Selection of Material 8
5.2 Integrating Culture Teaching with Language Teaching by culture contrast 9
5.3 Explicit Culture Teaching 10
6 .Conclusion 11
References 12
