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Acknowledgements
CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Problem
1.1.1 Current problems in high school English teaching
1.1.2 Current research situations
1.2 The importance of cross-culture teaching
1.2.1 The importance of cross-culture teaching
1.2.2 What does culture learning can help us?
1.3 The need to develop intercultural competence
CHAPTER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 The characteristics of language
2.1.1 Definition of language
2.1.2 Nature of language
2.2 What is culture?
2.2.1 Definitions of culture
2.2.2 Functions of culture and its characteristics
2.3 Relationship between language and culture.
2.4 About intercultural communication
2.4.1 Definition of communication
2.4.2 Definition of intercultural communication and its elements
2.5 Necessity of developing intercultural communicative competence
2.5.1. The aims and tasks set by the syllabus
2.5.2 The importance of culture instruction in English teaching
2.6 About Reading
CHAPTER Ⅲ CONTENT AND PROBLEMS IN TEACHING ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION
3.1 Deriving cultural connotations
3.1.1 Cultural connotations of words
3.1.2 Cultural connotations of idioms
3.1.3 Cultural connotations of proverbs
3.2 Potential problems in intercultural communication
3.3 Contents for culture teaching
CHAPTER Ⅳ METHODS OF IMPROVING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION
4.1 The pre-reading stage
4.2 The while-reading stage
4.2.1 Skimming, scanning and topic sentence
4.2.2 Guessing unknown words
4.3 The Post-reading Stage
4.3.1 Comprehension questions
4.3.2 Summarizing
4.3.3 The quantitative and qualitative changes
4.4 What should our teachers do?
CHAPTER Ⅴ. CONCLUSION
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