探究圣经文化对高中英语教学的影响-以外研社英语教材为例_英语论文

A Study of the Influence of Biblical Culture on High School English Teaching:——Illustrated by the FLTRP English Textbooks

摘要

文化和语言之间的关系密不可分，学习外语不仅是掌握语言的过程，也是接触和认识另一种社会文化的过程。圣经和圣经文化作为西方传统文化的主要组成部分, 对西方社会生活、价值观及英语语言等各个领域具有深刻地内在价值和意义。但圣经及其文化的影响和价值在国内高中英语教学中似乎没有得到应有的关注和重视。本文基于此，以外研社高中英语教材为例，侧重研究圣经文化在高中英语教材中的渗透，并尝试性提出“在高中英语教学过程中渗透圣经文化”。

文化是孕育语言的土壤。本文将阐述圣经和圣经文化对英语语言产生的影响和作用：圣经的普及对英语语言的传播和标准化起到了重要的作用；钦定英文版圣经的推广标志着英语语言从中古英语过渡到早期现代英语；而一直沿用至今的大量圣经人名、习语、典故、谚语、文学形式和主题等，更加反映出圣经及其文化对于英语语言的深刻影响。对于英语学习者来说，了解和掌握有关圣经文化知识，对学习英语有很大的帮助。

另一方面，从中国语境下的高中英语教学角度出发，普通高中英语课程标准中明确指出对于学生文化意识的培养目标——了解英语国家的主要宗教传统，初步了解主要英语国家的重要历史文化现象的渊源，理解英语中常用成语及其文化内涵。圣经文化是西方文化最重要的组成部分，对理解和掌握英语语言有着莫大的帮助，是英语教学中不可缺少的一部分知识。高中英语教学中出现的关于圣经文化的内容，主要来自课本中关于圣经的一些节日如狂欢节、圣诞节、复活节等节日介绍，还有一些源于圣经的人名，学生在听力或阅读中也会遇到一些源于圣经的习语和典故，因此在高中英语教学过程中渗透圣经文化是很重要的。但现行高中英语教学中还没有人尝试渗透圣经文化，学生也很少去主动去了解圣经文化方面的内容，因此与英语语言密切相关的圣经文化知识是缺失的。

结合文化教学法，本文尝试着提出了在高中英语教学过程中渗透圣经文化的三大途径：在课堂英语教学中渗透圣经文化，在老师指导下阅读圣经所选章节和观看与圣经文化相关的视频。

最后，希望通过本文关于圣经文化对高中英语教学的影响研究，使圣经文化对英语语言和高中英语教学的重要影响得到相应的关注和重视，并可能在高中英语教学过程中实现圣经文化的渗透，从而使其对实现激发学生的英语学习兴趣，提高学生文化敏锐性和增强学生跨文化交际能力等目标发挥积极作用。

关键词： 圣经 圣经文化 高中英语教学

Abstract

Since there is a close connection between culture and language, leaning a foreign language is not only a process of mastering a language but also one of contacting and comprehending another culture. As an essential part of western culture and fundamentally a foundation in many aspects throughout the western world, the Bible and Biblical culture has exerted profound influence in the shaping of westerner’s values, way of life and development of the English language. But the value of the Bible and Biblical culture hasn’t earned much attention in the high school English language teaching in Chinese context. In response to this situation, and illustrated by the FLTRP English textbooks, this thesis discusses the infiltration of Biblical culture in high school English textbooks published by FLTRP, as well as attempting to propose the idea of infiltration of Biblical culture in high school English teaching in Chinese context.

Culture is the soil that breeds language. This thesis elaborates the impact of Biblical culture upon the English language. The English translation and publication of the Bible plays an important role in the spread and standardization of the English language. The Authorized Version of the Bible marked the real transition from Middle English to Early Modern English. Until now many Biblical names, idioms, allusions, proverbs, literary forms and themes still find their expressions in Modern English，through which the impact of the Bible and its culture on the English language can be readily seen. For Chinese English learners, learning and mastering some Biblical culture is likely to be of great help to their English learning.

Seen from the perspective of the high school English teaching in Chinese context, Biblical culture learning may also finds its reason and necessity. The New Curriculum Standard issued by Ministry of Education laid out the goal of cultivating the students’ cultural awareness—to have a basic knowledge of the main religious tradition in the English-speaking countries, to have a basic understanding of the origins of some important historical events and to comprehend some common idioms and their cultural connotations. As an essential part of western culture, the Biblical culture is of great help to the understanding and mastery of the English language, and is an indispensable part in English teaching. The FLTRP English Textbooks covers quite a few about Biblical culture, for instance, festivals originated in the Bible, English names originated in the Bible, etc. Therefore, it’s vital to infiltrate some Biblical culture in high school English teaching. Actually, nobody has tried doing this and few students try to get information about Biblical culture on their own initiative. Thus the religious culture is lacking in language teaching.

As for how to infiltrate Biblical culture in high school English teaching, the thesis tries to put forward three approaches through which the proposed ides may be put into practice. The three approaches include the infiltration of Biblical culture in class, read the selected material of the Bible text and watch videos about Biblical culture.

Finally, I hope that through this analysis about the influence of Biblical culture on High school English teaching，the due attention will be given to the phenomenon that Biblical culture has great impact on the English language as well as the high school English teaching, and whenever possible the infiltration of Biblical culture can be reflected in high school English teaching. All these efforts may find their significance if they can be of great help to stimulate students’ learning interest, develop their keen cultural awareness, and strengthen their cross-culture communication competence.

Key words: the Bible   Biblical culture   High School English Teaching.