Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
全球化文化异同和语言的重要载体和文化的有机组成部分，吸引了人们的注意力，由语言学家强调。由于语言，文化和传播都离不开对方，大学英语教学应更加重视文化教学，从而培养大学生跨文化交际能力。笔者从以下几个方面介绍了探讨背景：Globalization draws people’s attention to cultural differences, and language,being both the key carrier and organic component of culture, is highlighted bylinguists. Since language, culture and communication are inseparable from each other,College English teaching should pay more attention to cultural teaching so as tocultivate university students’ intercultural communication competence. The authorintroduces the research background from the following aspects:
1.1.1 Relations of Language, Culture and Communication
文化被视为通信（霍尔，1959），英语论文题目，以及使用任何特定社区的人交流，英语毕业论文，即语言，无论是在语言或非语言形式。非语言的形式包括：肢体动作，眼神接触，时间，空间，气味，触摸，社会情况和使用。语言教学说明这些知道如何在一个特定的语言和文化背景的沟通，准确和适当的概念下。语言执行两个重要的文化功能：首先，它有助于保护文化，其次，它传递文化代代相传。语言是作为人机交互的各个方面也很重要，或者是和哈里斯（2017：50）认为，“内心深处的基本形式，语言是一种工具，人类已经利用他人思想和感情。Culture is regarded as communication (Hall, 1959), and what people of aparticular community use to communicate, namely language either in verbal ornonverbal form. The non-verbal form includes: body movements, eye contact, time,space, smell, touching, and the use of the social situation. Language teaching explainsthese under the notion of knowing how to communicate accurately and appropriatelyin a specific linguistic and cultural context.Language performs two important cultural functions: firstly, it helps to preserveculture; secondly, it transmits culture from generation to generation. Language is alsoimportant to all aspects of human interaction as Orbe and Harris (2017: 50) argue, “Inmost basic form, language is a tool humans have utilized thoughts, and feelings to others.” Language plays a significant part in life because it is capable of labelingthings, facilitating social interaction and cultural transmission. The labeling functionis concerned with identifying or naming a person, object, or act, so that he, she, or itmay be referred to in communication. With the help of language, people convey ideasand express emotions, and send information to others. These three functions aregenerally viewed as the primary purposes of communication. Communication servesvarious purposes in life and satisfies both social and individual needs. Researchersconsider some of these functions as a further means of highlighting the importance oflanguage to the study of communication (Larry, 2017: 140).According to Patrick (2017), culture is the evolving way of life of a group ofpeople, consisting of a shared set of practices associated with a shared set of products,based upon a shared set of perspectives on the world, and set within specific socialcontexts. People need to be able to express themselves and communicate withmembers of the culture as they get along with those members in the myriad practicesand products which make up their way of life. In addition, people need to do thisproperly, using the suitable language in the suitable way, in accordance with theanticipations of the members of the culture. Such is the language of self-expression,communication, and social interaction, based on the direct experience of the culturalcommunity.
1.1.2 Teaching Program of College English and Teaching Requirements of College English Curriculum
Different from the English teaching of primary school and middle school,College English teaching pays more attention to CALP
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