The role of English teachers' cultural literacy in teaching is 1, which is helpful to cultivate students' intercultural communication ability.
The acceleration of globalization will inevitably lead to frequent cross-cultural human communication, and the task of foreign language teaching is to cultivate high-quality foreign language talents with profound cultural literacy. Therefore, English teachers not only shoulder the heavy responsibility of teaching and communication. As English teachers, we should gradually expand the content and scope of cultural knowledge according to students' age characteristics and cognitive ability. The cultural knowledge of English-speaking countries involved in teaching should be closely related to students' daily life, knowledge structure and cognitive level, and can stimulate students' interest in learning English culture. It is necessary to expand the scope of students' contact with foreign cultures, help students broaden their horizons, improve their sensitivity and ability to distinguish the similarities and differences between Chinese and foreign cultures, and lay a good foundation for developing cross-cultural communication ability.
2. It helps to cultivate students' ability to perceive language and appreciate reading.
The core of language ability is language sense ability, and cultivating students' language sense is an enduring topic in English teaching research. It is also one of the purposes of English teaching to cultivate students' aesthetic taste and improve their reading appreciation ability.
The task of modern foreign language teaching is to cultivate talents who can communicate across cultures in different cultural backgrounds. English teachers have good cultural quality and relatively strong ability to conduct substantive cross-cultural communication in foreign languages, which enables students to master solid and profound basic knowledge, and further expand their knowledge on this premise, so that students can know more about the wider world. The prominent position of cultural literacy in English reading teaching is obvious. In the process of reading, to appreciate an article from the perspective of literary appreciation is not always to segment and summarize the general idea of a paragraph or summarize the central idea, but to guide them to taste the language and analyze the beauty of form, sentence and words. Let students spread their imagination wings, replace abstract words with vivid pictures, and transform literary language into images in their minds.
Teaching is to let students discover, feel and experience these beauties under the inspiration, guidance and encouragement of teachers. Through long-term edification, immersion and cultivation, students can form beautiful emotions, beautiful morals and beautiful thoughts, and learn to discover, appreciate and create the beauty of language.
3. It helps to improve students' overall cultural quality.
Cultural literacy has a profound influence on English teachers' academic level and innovative practice, as well as their exemplary role in behavior. The cultural quality of English teachers is closely related to the cultural trend and running level of the school. Therefore, in order to improve students' cultural quality and school's cultural taste and style, English teachers should first have higher cultural literacy. Improving English teachers' cultural quality is an important prerequisite for improving students' cultural quality and an important support for improving the school's own cultural taste.
Ways to Cultivate English Teachers' Cultural Literacy Every English teacher must fully realize the important role of teachers' cultural literacy in English teaching. Fully realize that the new era has given education a new historical mission. The cultivation of cultural literacy is a long-term subtle process. To improve English teachers' cultural literacy, we must first update our educational concepts, improve our ideological understanding and establish new educational concepts. Secondly, we should adopt diversified training forms and carry out various forms of teaching and research activities. In the way of continuing education, we should adopt various methods to improve English teachers' cultural literacy.
1. Make full use of learning opportunities to effectively cultivate and improve in-service English teachers' language communicative competence and cultural insight.
2. English teachers should have excellent English professional knowledge and other related knowledge. Among the actual English teachers, teachers' academic qualifications are uneven, including secondary normal school, junior college and undergraduate course; Some have received special normal education, some have not, and the starting point of teachers' professional level is naturally high and low; Some English teachers even switched to teaching English. Therefore, in our continuing education, we should strengthen the study of cultural background knowledge, so that English teachers can have a thorough and detailed understanding of the history, geography, culture, customs, lifestyle and traditional festivals of English-speaking countries and create the necessary conditions for improving English teaching.
In the continuing education and training of English teachers, we should choose as many materials with cultural connotations as possible. Some textbooks selected in the teaching itself introduce the cultural customs, historical events or important people in contemporary Britain and America. Some teachers feel embarrassed when they find that their knowledge is narrow and their teaching is passive. Therefore, in continuing education, we must strive to broaden our knowledge and regard reading representative British and American literary works as an important aspect of learning English cultural knowledge.
Teachers should pay attention to manners and always remind themselves? Being a model? .
Teachers must have a tolerant and loving heart and treat every student equally, objectively and fairly. In the process of English teaching, we should strive to cultivate teachers' sense of unity and cooperation, actively and enthusiastically serve students, and at the same time maintain a healthy and upright teacher image.
As a language teaching, English teaching should emphasize not only its instrumentality, but also its culture. In order to deepen students' language and cultural quality education, it is very important to improve the cultural quality of school English teachers. Only by improving the overall cultural quality of all English teachers can students' language application ability and cultural taste be truly improved, and quality education for students, especially cultural quality education, be more lasting and effective.
English teachers should have 1 cultural accomplishment, good moral cultivation and personality quality.
Quality education is moral first. Who is the teacher? Engineers of the human soul? It plays a great role in the growth of students. English teachers are spreading a culture while teaching students a language. In this way, the selection principle of absorbing foreign culture and the ideological and moral quality of cultivating talents are controlled by the ideological quality of teachers. Only by constantly improving their moral cultivation can teachers cultivate high-quality Chinese talents with self-esteem, self-love, self-confidence and innovative ability. Teachers should love their jobs and students, often communicate with students with poor language foundation, become real friends with students, and establish an equal and harmonious relationship between teachers and students. At the same time, teachers should be strict with themselves, consciously abide by the rules and regulations of the school, set an example by themselves, be honest and self-disciplined, serve others with virtue, and set an example for students.
2. Have solid professional knowledge and a certain theoretical level.
English teachers should not only have ideal personality quality, but also master a set of professional knowledge and skills in education and teaching. Only with certain professional knowledge and theoretical level can we be familiar with and grasp the teaching content, carefully design the classroom, understand the position, significance and role of each part of Chinese knowledge in the discipline structure, and easily grasp the key points, difficulties and knowledge connection points of each class, so as to do it during the lecture? A building with a superior location? . To teach students a glass of water, a teacher must have a bucket of water, a jar of water, and even a steady stream of tap water, in order to be prepared and used freely. As a teacher, we should master systematic knowledge of educational theory, have extensive cultural literacy, be familiar with educational and teaching theories such as educational science, psychological science and teaching rules, and understand students' psychological phenomena and characteristics in learning English.
3. Have a systematic understanding of modern culture in China.
The process of learning English is the process of absorbing English language and culture. English and Chinese belong to two different language families. Therefore, English teachers should systematically recognize and understand the essential characteristics of human language and its usage rules, and improve their language quality and usage ability. In teaching practice, it should be fully reflected? Language is not only a tool for thinking and communication, but also a carrier of culture? We should consciously follow the laws of language acquisition and language ability development, and create and apply English teaching methods that conform to these laws.
4. Have a rich understanding of Chinese and foreign cultures.
The new textbook has the characteristics of attaching importance to cultivating positive emotional attitude and improving cultural literacy. The text is contemporary, ideological and true. Topics are extensive, involving Chinese and foreign cultural traditions, customs and habits, biographies of celebrities, traditional festivals, healthy sports, learning methods, behavior norms, social sciences, interpersonal relationships, environmental protection, entertainment activities, food culture, ecological balance, humorous taboos, energy and transportation, etc. All the textbooks discussed around these topics reflect Chinese and foreign cultures. The textbook vividly shows the cultural differences between the East and the West, aiming to help students correctly understand the world, enhance their understanding of the language countries they are learning, develop their intelligence and improve their cultural quality. Teachers should use textbooks scientifically, activate the content of textbooks, fully tap the cultural connotation of textbooks, design flexible and diverse teaching scenarios, and let students consciously learn and master cultural knowledge. For the topics about foreign daily life habits and customs in textbooks, teachers should let students feel foreign culture through flexible teaching methods. If you are teaching unit 7A, Let? Let's celebrate! Sometimes, teachers can ask students to collect information about foreign festivals, such as Valentine's Day, Easter Easter, April Fool's Day and Mother's Day. Mother's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and so on. Teachers can ask students to tell the date, purpose and significance of each festival, and they can also make many pictures and words they find into PPT to speak freely in class. Students are exposed to a variety of rich reading materials in the process of searching for materials, which not only learn a lot of English knowledge, but also deepen their understanding of English culture. In this way, on the basis of cultural connotation, English language is more energetic and easier to understand and master.
In a word, every unit and theme of the new textbook pays attention to the infiltration of Chinese and western social and cultural knowledge, which requires teachers to work hard in this respect and strengthen their cultivation. In addition, teachers should be good at digging the deep meaning contained in textbooks, not just staying on the surface of language knowledge, but should seize the motor to carry out moral education for students.
5. Proficient in modern information technology.