How to Infiltrate Chinese and Western Cultures into English Teaching in Primary Schools

The study of any language is inseparable from the study of culture, and the cultivation of "cultural awareness" has become an indispensable part of English teaching. The English Curriculum Standard also clearly points out that "cultural awareness" is an important part of comprehensive language use ability and a guarantee for the correct use of language. Therefore, teachers should pay attention to the infiltration of English culture in English teaching. Therefore, as a primary school English teacher, it is essential to transfer and introduce cultural knowledge in teaching besides cultivating students' language knowledge and language ability. First, understand the comparison between Chinese and western cultures through textbooks and infiltrate cultural awareness. There are many themes about the comparison between Chinese and western cultures in the new standard textbooks for primary school English. By comparing the differences between Chinese and western cultures, for example, what do you like? In this article, we learned the traditional English breakfast, lunch and dinner. The teacher wants the students to discuss the traditional food in China and make a comparison. Through comparison, the teacher made the students realize that fast food, such as McDonald's and KFC, which are popular all over the world, is actually not a healthy diet. On the contrary, Westerners pay more attention to China's eating habits, and it is easier to cultivate national pride through comparison. The comparison between Chinese and western cultures can easily help students to increase their cultural background and increase their awareness of cross-cultural communication. Let students feel and realize the important role of culture in communication. If they don't understand, they may make jokes or even have misunderstandings or more serious consequences. Secondly, by learning to sing English songs, we can feel the western culture. According to the research of relevant experts, using music properly and skillfully in teaching can improve teaching efficiency and get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, in English teaching, we should pay attention to guiding students to learn and feel music. In particular, learning to sing English songs has brought children a sweet spring to understand and accept the influence of foreign culture. We can teach and sing some popular and influential songs at home and abroad in time. Because these songs are often played on TV and radio, and children are loyal supporters of the media. Children are familiar with its melody and singing method, interested in it, and pay more attention, so the words and sentences they have learned are easy to learn and remember. Such as: Happy New Year; Do, Re, Mi (episode of the American film "The Sound of Music"); Jingle bells, etc. Classic nursery rhymes come from a profound and broad cultural background. In the process of learning to sing, children learn about "OldMacDonald", visit "DisneyWorld" and feel the exotic "Jingle Bells". In addition, nursery rhymes are catchy to read and pleasant to sing. In the process of learning to sing English songs, children are deeply influenced by culture at the same time, and the knowledge and emotion gained from it will be transferred to English learning in the future, which is of inestimable value. Thirdly, through various festival activities, festivals with cultural awareness can best reflect the cultural characteristics of a country. The East and the West have their own festivals. We carry out activities with the theme of festival culture, so that students can feel the western culture while learning the language. For example, while learning Christmas, let students appreciate Gingle Bell, experience the happiness and warmth of Christmas, and tell them the origin of Christmas. There is also Thanksgiving in the West. When some English Puritans persecuted by religion first arrived in America, they had no food. At this time, the kind Indians brought necessities to the immigrants, and specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fish and grow corn and pumpkins. With the help of Indians, the immigrants finally got a bumper harvest. On the day of celebrating the harvest, according to religious traditions and customs, immigrants set a day to thank God and decided to invite them to celebrate the festival together to thank the Indians for their sincere help. I explained to the students that this festival is not limited to thanking God or neighbors, but can also be used to express gratitude to those who usually care about and take care of you. For example, we thank our parents for their upbringing, teachers for their careful cultivation, or our motherland for its efforts to make us live and work in peace and contentment. Usually, we China people are reserved and introverted, and we are not good at expressing our feelings, but this does not mean that we are indifferent. I take this opportunity to guide students to learn to thank others, care about people around them, always have a grateful person and cherish life more. To sum up, it is impossible to learn a language well without mastering the cultural background. English teachers must pay attention to the infiltration of cultural awareness while teaching English knowledge. At the same time, we must realize that China culture is one of the oldest and splendid cultures in the world. In the process of teaching, it is necessary to strengthen the contrast between Chinese culture and English culture and help students establish the concept of language and culture equality. Never think which culture is better or which language is more beautiful. So as to effectively cultivate students' awareness of cross-cultural communication, further cultivate students' sense of mission of respecting cultures of various countries and spreading Chinese and foreign cultures, and at the same time improve students' ability to communicate freely in language and non-language in the face of real context, thus achieving our teaching objectives.

Reference: How to Infiltrate Western Culture into Li Qiong in Primary School English Teaching?