On Fostering Students' Cultural Awareness in Teaching English

DOI

10.2991/seiem-17.2018.39How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cultural awareness, culture, cross-cultural communication, English teaching

Abstract

This paper aims to develop students' cultural awareness and improve their performance of cross-cultural communication. The author thinks there are four levels of cultural awareness, "Four No's" - No Sense, No Reservation, No Passion and No Culture. If one has experienced "from No to No" pattern, he becomes "an old X-language hand". As an English teacher, one will obtain the goal by leading much English culture in the course of the four-basic-skill teaching. This paper will mainly discuss three of the four basic skills - listening, speaking and reading to foster students' cultural awareness in English learning. Hopefully, after several years of English learning, students can adapt to English culture and communicate with native English speakers appropriately without cultural troubles.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Zhang
AU  - Tiantian Wang
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - On Fostering Students' Cultural Awareness in Teaching English
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Seminar on Education Innovation and Economic Management (SEIEM 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 162
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/seiem-17.2018.39
DO  - 10.2991/seiem-17.2018.39
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