Cultural Influence of Chinese Context on the English Teaching Method
1. Introduction
With the development of modern society, English is becoming more and more important in the world . In China, it seems that English is much more important than our mother tongue itself. In order to teach the students well, China’s English teachers are trying their best. However, many Chinese students can only finishes off the test paper successfully. They can not speak English well and communicate with others well . It is known as the “Dumb English”. Teaching methods need to be improved extremely. This article presents the cultural influence on the English teaching in China. China’s old tradition plays a positive role as well as the negative role. In order to improve the students’ English level, teachers have to extinguish the negative parts and develop the positive parts. Traditional form of teaching method is hard to change , however in this fast developing society, teachers must adjust their own attitudes towards English language teaching. If teachers can master better teaching methods, it will be easier for Chinese students to learn English well. And teachers will also release themselves from tiring work .Both teachers and students will be happy to treat English learning as an easy thing.
2. Positive cultural inferences of Chinese context on the English language teaching method.