A Study of the Correlation Between Junior High School Students' Cultural Awareness of English and English Scores

Abstract

Cultivating language cultural awareness helps enhance students' national identity and national sentiment, improve their sense of language cultural identity and self-confidence, and facilitate their growth into socially responsible and civilized individuals. Mainland Chinese students use the British language "English" as a second language in their language learning process. Therefore, developing students' cultural awareness of English becomes an essential part of teaching. At present, most studies by Chinese researchers on English cultural awareness have focused on its current state and the way it is cultivated, and there are few studies on the correlation between English cultural awareness and English scores. Thus, this study will attempt to explore the correlation between junior high school students' cultural awareness of English and their English scores. The experiment showed that there was a significant positive correlation between English cultural awareness and English scores (r=0.742, p<0.01), that is, the more cultural awareness you are of English, the more your English scores will improve significantly. The findings of this study help researchers of English language teaching and teachers to further understand the importance of cultural awareness in English and the correlation between English cultural awareness and English scores.