A Practical Study on Integrating Chinese Culture into the Comprehensive English Course
Abstract
Integrating Chinese culture into classroom teaching is a requirement for the ideological and political construction of courses in institutions of higher learning. Due to its disciplinary attributes, the Comprehensive English course bears the mission of fostering cultural confidence and telling Chinese stories well in English. To fulfill this mission and responsibility of Comprehensive English in terms of Chinese culture, this paper proposes practical paths for integrating Chinese culture into the course. It suggests focusing on textbook texts to explore cultural elements, expanding resources to enhance the representational ability of cultural content, demonstrating diverse cultural investigation methods through in-depth teaching, innovating tasks to improve the communication power of Chinese culture, and emphasizing evaluation to pay attention to the effect of Chinese culture learning. By doing so, Chinese culture can be integrated into teaching, and students’ ability to tell Chinese stories well in English can be enhanced.
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