On Cultural Teaching in English Teaching

Language is closely and inseparably related to culture. Language is the carrier of culture while culture is the base of the language. In foreign language teaching process, language teachers should not only develop students' basic skills such as listening, speaking,reading, writing and translating, but also should pay more attention to cultural teaching and make students have a better understanding of the cultural backgrounds of the foreign language that they learn, in order to develop the students' cultural consciousness and improve their intercultural communicative competence. Because of the flaws of English teaching in our country, this paper firstly explain the importance of teaching culture in English teaching on the basis of the relationship between language and culture, next put forward three principles of cultural teaching. Finally analyze the methods of culture teaching in the English teaching process.