Abstract:“Cultural awareness” is the concern of fundamental foreign language education in China. The Ministry of Education in China issued The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools in 2003, which states that developing cultural awareness is one of general curriculum objectives in senior high schools. In 2010, the set of textbooks published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press was used in Sichuan province. In the set of textbooks, every cultural corner”, more  English teachers are devoting themselves to developing students’ cultural awareness in better ways.

 This paper analyzes definitions, objectives and contents of cultural awareness. And then it explores the problems in developing cultural awareness in senior high schools. The measures to the problems are proposed at last. They are giving cultural knowledge in the process of English teaching, students’ learning by themselves to gather the cultural knowledge in daily life, using multimedia resources and the practices of dialogue and role-play in EFLT.

Key words: cultural awarenesssenior high English developing

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Introduction 4

1.Culture awareness5

 1.1 Definitions 5

 1.2 Objectives of developing students’ cultural awareness7

 1.3 Contents of culture education in senior high schools 10

2.Some problems of developing students’ cultural awareness nowadays 19

  2.1 Some problems of students  19  

2.2 Some problems of English teachers’ in EFLT  20

3.The suggested measures to develop students’ cultural awareness  21

  3.1 Giving cultural knowledge in the process of English teaching  21

  3.2 Gathering cultural knowledge gradually in daily life22

  3.3 Using multimedia resources 22

  3.4 Dialogue and role-play in EFLT 23

Conclusion  23

Bibliography25

Acknowledgments  26