浅谈高职英语教学中跨文化意识的培养

语言与文化密切相关，外语学习实质上是一种文化学习。培养学生跨文化意识有助于学生更好地掌握和运用英语，否则，学成的只能是一种非他非我的准语言。阐述了英语教学中跨文化意识培养的重要性，分析了当前高职院校跨文化教学中存在的问题，归纳了一系列培养跨文化意识的基本方法。

On the Development of Cross-Cultural Awareness in Higher Vocational English Teaching

Language and culture are closely related with each other. Foreign language learning is in fact cultural leaning. Developing students＇ cross-cultural awareness will help them to have a better mastery and use of English. Otherwise what they learn would be neither English nor Chinese. This Paper expounds the importance of cross-cultural awareness in English teaching, analyzes the problems existing in present cross-cultural teaching, summarizes a series of basic methods for this purpose.