试论高中生文化意识的培养_英语论文

On Developing Senior High Students’ Cultural Awareness

摘要

“文化意识”是我国基础外语教育关注的问题。2003年，我国颁布了《普通高中英语课程标准》。其中，第一次明确提出了文化意识作为高中阶段课程目标之一。四川省从2010年开始使用外研社的高中英语教材，其中增加了“cultural corner”这一内容。文化意识的培养得到了应有的重视，越来越多的高中英语教师在这方面正在进行着有益的探索。

本论文探讨了关于文化意识的定义，浅析一些文化意识的培养目标。然后针对四川省使用的外研社的高中英语教材，分析教材中的有关文化意识的内容。对现在高中英语文化意识培养的问题从教师和学生两个方面进行分析。提出了四项笔者认为行之有效的措施。这些措施是在学习过程中植入文化意识的培养，注重学生文化信息的积累，运用现代多媒体技术和在课堂中进行对话练习和角色扮演。

关键词：高中英语 文化意识 培养

On Developing Senior High Students’ Cultural Awareness

Abstract    

“Cultural awareness” is the concern of fundamental foreign language education in China. The Ministry of Education in China issued The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools in 2003, which states that developing cultural awareness is one of general curriculum objectives in senior high schools. In 2010, the set of textbooks published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press was used in Sichuan province. In the set of textbooks, every cultural corner”, more  English teachers are devoting themselves to developing students’ cultural awareness in better ways.

 This paper analyzes definitions, objectives and contents of cultural awareness. And then it explores the problems in developing cultural awareness in senior high schools. The measures to the problems are proposed at last. They are giving cultural knowledge in the process of English teaching, students’ learning by themselves to gather the cultural knowledge in daily life, using multimedia resources and the practices of dialogue and role-play in EFLT.

Key words: cultural awareness   senior high English    developing