Research on Penetration of Anglo-American Culture in University English Teaching

Abstract

Anglo American cultural background knowledge is the basic foundation of the correct understanding of words, sentences of English. This paper expound the necessity of penetration of Anglo-American culture, analyses the concept of the Anglo-American culture, points out the principles of penetration of Anglo-American culture in university English teaching, and finally gives the methods of introducing Anglo-American culture in university English teaching in order to give relevant researchers some references. Necessity of Penetration of Anglo-American Culture Language is a special part of culture. It is a tool for people to communicate with each other, and a medium integrating people and culture. Language is formed along with the formation of human society, but also with the development of human society. Human language has created a culture, culture and in turn promote the development of human society, b ut also enriched the way of language expression. Since ancient times, the cultural heritage of human society has accumulated a deep imprint on the language. Anglo-American culture refers to the sum of the life styles of Anglo American countries, people's way of life, including the geographical environment, social history, customs, traditions and customs, folklore, way of life, literature and art, religion, science and technology, concept of value.In the current practice of university English teaching, the teachers only focus on teaching listening and speaking, reading and writing skills knowledge, teachers are to teach a variety of knowledge or outline of test, students in the back of the machinery, learn boring, almost no interest whatsoever when British and American culture deeply in the teaching, Anglo American countries fresh and new culture, customs can effectively stimulate students interest in learning, arouse their learning initiative. University English teaching, fundamentally speaking, is to apply, did not achieve this effect, then the high score can show his success as mentioned above.The language is produced and developed in the cultural environment, he is the expression and reflection of culture, which determines the different language and culture have great difference in the English Teaching of culture, so that students can master the correct form of the language, so that they can be on different occasions, according to different objects, according to different needs, the process of communication activities for cultural infiltration of the linguistic forms, rich cultural background knowledge provides conditions for the meaning construction, make students the main body of knowledge.The teacher's task is to guide and organize students to collaborative learning, not only focus on the vocabulary and grammar, but also have a good command of Anglo-American culture.