A Survey on Cultivating College Non-English Majors' Abilities to Express Chinese Culture in English through College English Teaching

摘要

To cultivate college non-English majors' abilities of expressing Chinese culture in English, our program is to compare and contrast western and Chinese culture based on topics in the existing college English textbooks which are target culture materials. To probe students' attitudes to the way of teaching Chinese culture in college English course and the amount of Chinese culture input and output in college English course, problems or difficulties students met in learning Chinese culture in college English course, and students' suggestions on learning Chinese culture in college English course, a questionnaire was implemented after the three-month experiment. Results of the questionnaire were discussed. And suggestions on Chinese culture teaching of college English course were offered according to the results of the questionnaire.