The Cultural Background Influence on Teaching Reading at High School

阅读是认知活动，是一种综合能力的体现。随着课程改革的逐步推进，阅读教学在教学中占的比重越来越大，然而在实际的教学中还存在一些问题，使得阅读教学达不到预期的教学效果，当然，影响学生阅读能力的因素众多，如语言能力、学习动机、阅读策略、思维迁移以及情感等诸多因素。而文化背景知识则是影响阅读能力的主要因素，由于缺少目的语国家的文化背景知识而产生理解上的错误。外语教学实际上是一种跨文化的交流，语言和文化不可分割正如法国社会学家罗兰.巴特（1984）所言：“无论从哪方面看，文化都离不开语言。” 文化教学是社会发展的需要，在我国传统的英语教学中，教师和学生都过分注重语言形式的学习，忽视文化背景知识在英语学习中的重要性。在教学的过程中，只有通过灵活有效的教学方式和教学策略，才能够改善英语教学中的突出问题，实现高中英语教学的有效性和实践性。本文主要是对于高中英语教学的现状进行分析研究，并在此基础上对于改善高中英语阅读教学提出建议策略，希望促进高中英语教学的质量，同时进一步提高学生的文化意识。关键词；文化背景；高中生；阅读能力；影响AbstractReading is a cognitive activity, and is also the demonstration of comprehensive ability. With the promotion of English curriculum reform, reading has taken a large proportion in English teaching, which makes teaching process fail to achieve the expected effect. Of course, There are several agents which affect the progress of reading ability , such as language skills, learning motivation, reading strategies, and many other factors.However,cultural background knowledge is the main influential reason,because the lack of target language will cause misundersatanding. Just as the French sociologist Roland.Barthes(1998) said:’no matter where we are,culture can not exist without language.” Cultural teaching meets the needs of social development. In our traditional English teaching, teachers as well as students highlighted the study on language form,and negelected the irreplaceable role of cultural background knowledge.In teaching,wi...