INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE ON ENGLISH READING
Journal Title: Topics In Education, Culture and Social Development (TECSD) - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Language and culture are associated with each other and culture occupies an obvious status in English reading. However, the traditional teaching method lays emphasis on vocabulary, sentence and grammar. And it ignores the great influence of cultural background knowledge. Though investigation the author finds that a lot of students do not have strong awareness to apply culture background knowledge in English reading. Some students who have realize the importance of culture background knowledge have no idea about how to apply it in English reading. This paper first emphasis the importance of cultural background knowledge in English reading and then proposes several ways of building cultural background knowledge. In this paper, questionnaire, reading comprehension test and teaching experiment are used to confirm the author’s research hypothesis
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Yang Lu
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- DOI 10.26480/icecsd.01.2018.46.50
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