• DocumentCode
    3257216
  • Title

    Relation between language and culture in English teaching

  • Author

    Pan, Sha ; Cao, Zhong

  • Author_Institution
    Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2010
  • Abstract
    The relation between language and culture in English teaching activities has been presented in this paper, indicating that language is the carrier of culture, language and culture promote and influence one another, and culture contains intrinsic rules or conventions directing language use. The specific involvement of culture in English study has also been discussed in different cases. The language features of cultural introduction have been described in detail indicating that the culture introduction in English study and teaching is challenge to English teachers with broad contents.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; distance learning; humanities; natural languages; teaching; English teaching; culture; international interaction; language; Art; Computer science education; Cultural differences; Educational technology; Global communication; Humans; Ice; Natural languages; Snow; Vocabulary; English study; English teaching; culture; language; language feature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6367-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529272
  • Filename
    5529272