Sorting Out and Exploring the Ways of Integrating Chinese Culture into College English Teaching

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10.2991/978-2-38476-289-7_18How to use a DOI?

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College English Education; Traditional Chinese Culture; English Language Teaching; Culture Learning; Cross-culture Learning

Abstract

According to the current national education policy, traditional Chinese culture should be integrated into college English teaching in order to tell Chinese stories well. China’s extensive and profound cultural soft power, integrating in the language learning classroom, re-roots traditional Chinese culture in college general education, in the meantime, facilitates undergraduates learning how to express and disseminate Chinese culture in English. This study systematically collates, analyzes and explores the ways of integrating Chinese traditional or modern culture into college English teaching, based on more than 40 articles collected so far. The results of the path analysis done by these previous researchers are practical and feasible, and surprisingly, they are much similar. It can be classified into three aspects: first, the improvement and application of teaching materials; second, the further improved teachers’ teaching methods and learning of cultural connotation; third, the cooperation of educational environment. The author proposes a thought after sorting out these empirical works. The teacher serves as a crucial link between defective teaching materials, innovative teaching methods and imperfect cultural environmental activities. When teachers effectively utilize these resources, they can still guide students towards achieving set learning objectives and actually convey Chinese narratives, even in less than ideal external environments.

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AU  - Chunghisen Hsu
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/28
TI  - Sorting Out and Exploring the Ways of Integrating Chinese Culture into College English Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 SSEME workshop on Social Sciences and Education (SSEME-SSE 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 151
EP  - 157
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-289-7_18
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-289-7_18
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