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Chapter One Literature Review

1.1 Cross-cultural education in foreign language teaching abroad
It was not until the late nineteenth century that the importance of culture teaching in foreignlanguage education was recognized. In 1889, when Sweet’s book The Practical Study OfLanguages —— A Guide for Teachers and Learners (1964)was published, there was “noReference to anything that might be described as the ‘cultural’ aspect of language teaching”(Stern, 1983:263). After a year, the Report of the Committee of Twelve of the Modern LanguageAssociation of America officially acknowledges the teaching of European civilization andrecommended it for school curricula (Modern Association of America, 1900: 7-8). And in 1904,Jespersen’s book How to teach a foreign language was published, and in this book he statedthat the highest purpose of language teaching was to make learners study the culture of anothercountry.World WarⅠandⅡhad a great influence on people’s thoughts and foreign language teaching.After World War Ⅱ, the study of the intercultural communication as an academic disciplineoriginated in the United States in the 1950s. Edward T. Hall, an American anthropologist andcross-cultural researcher, made a lot of contributions to the relationship between the culture andcommunication. During the 1950s he worked for the United States State Department, at theForeign Service Institute (FSI), teaching inter-cultural communications skills to foreign servicepersonnel, developed the concept of “High context culture” and “Low context culture”, andwrote several popular practical books on dealing with cross-cultural issues.
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1.2 Cross-cultural education in foreign language teaching at home.
Compared with the West, the study of domestic cultural teaching began a little late. In fact, inChina, we have never denied the impact of cultural factors on foreign language learningwhether it was before the Cultural Revolution or after the reform and opening up. Interculturalcommunication studies in China started in the early 1980s.Before 1980s, due to some history factors, such as the history of Closed-door policy inChina, over-cautious attitude towards foreign culture and the lack of the study in the field offoreign culture teaching, people was lack of the awareness of culture teaching and cultureteaching had not been developed effectively,After 1980s, China has accelerated the pace with the international standards, emancipatedminds and changed concepts, which led to some achievements made in the study of cultureeducation in EFL teaching. Some experts and scholars have begun to write some articles andbooks, to discuss the language and culture, language teaching and culture teaching.Xu Guozhang (1980) first proposed the cultural connotations of English words. He heldthat language teachers in China paid insufficient attention to cultural semantic of words inEnglish teaching. Since then, the cultural factors in English teaching has begun to attract theattention of scholars, who began to study and prove that the necessity of English language andculture teaching. Subsequently, Deng Yanchang and Liu Runqing (1989), Qi yucun (1994), Shudingfang(1994, 1996) have published their own articles to discuss the relationship betweenlanguage and culture. They agreed on a very close relationship between language and culture,
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