Introduction Since reforming and opening up in our country, the English educational scale of our country enlarges constantly, educational teaching has gotten notable achievement . however, English educational present situation can not meet the needs of social development and the economic construction of our country yet This paper was studying the culture difference in English teaching Culture Difference in English Teaching Part One Since the reforming and opening-up in our country, most of the postgraduates have gone through English learning from primary school to college, however, are they capable enough to meet the market’s need with what they’ve learned? Can all these students properly solve the transfer from “know” to “use”, from usage to use, from grammar to pragmatic, from text to task, from classroom behavior to social behavior? Someone has done an investigation among over 1000 postgraduates, the results as following (1), Do you think the colleges English study do good to your job-hunting or the international communication? A: Yes B: No C: Need further study D: No choice 16.8% 15.4% 64.8% 3% (2), Having gone through the four years’ English learning, do you think your English can meet the need of your work? A: Can B: Just can C: Can’t D: Insufficient 9.76% 40.65% 29.27% 18.7% (3), During your working hours, can you communicate with the foreigners in English? A: Can B: Just can C: Can’t D: Difficult 11.38% 30.81% 17.89% 35.77% &n bsp; (4), How do you evaluate your English, which one is the most appropriate answer to your own feeling and reason? A: Satisfied, I owe it to the efforts of my teacher and myself 3.4% B: Unsatisfied, because the textbook does no good to our comprehension 23.2% C: Unsatisfied for lacking practices 45.6% D: Just so, the reason lies in both subjectivism and objectivism 27.5% *No choice 4.9% From above-mentioned table, it is not difficult to see that our students still have the old-fashioned worries and soft points. The current situation is tricky because they are far from what they have been expected to be. Our English teaching has a good intention, however, the students fail in performing it excellently. Who shall be blamed? They have been working hard during the four years; they have grasped all the grammar, large vocabulary, great amount of exercises, Why they can’t behave as a native English-speaker does? They are also so likely to make the communicative mistakes, let’s see some examples: A Chinese guest went to a Westerner’s home. Pointing to the Chinese to the sofa, the Westerner said, “Sit down, please.” The Chinese said, “No, no, I’ll sit here.” He moved towards a wooden chair. The Westerner said again, “Oh, do sit over here on the sofa.” The Chinese said, “No, no. This chair is perfectly all right.” Actually Westerners usually sit wherever the host points to or they themselves like to regardless of the kind of seats. Only Chinese people choose to sit in a less comfortable place in order to show they are polite and modest. A，英语论文范文，英语论文范文 |
