The Role of Traditional Chinese Culture in English Culture Teaching

In foreign language learning,people usually pay more attention to the negative interferences of our mother tongue and our own culture.However,the positive effects of the traditional Chinese culture on learning English culture should not be ignored.This paper analyzes the role of Chinese traditional culture in English teaching by introducing the relationships between culture and language,and the relationships between Chinese and English culture in particular.It is therefore important for foreign language learners to study Chinese culture,similarly Chinese culture teaching should not be ignored in foerign language teaching.