Language and culture can not be separated. It is impossible to learn language well if people do not master cultural back-ground. With the frequent communication between China and other nations throughout the world, cross-cultural communica-tive competence is put forward to be the ultimate goal of foreign language learning in China. However, in present situation, cul-tural factor has not gained its due place in students’English learning. Based on this circumstance, this paper analyzes the cultural obstacles on English learning from the aspects of listening, reading and communicating, and puts forward that while instructing English language, teachers of English should pay attention to and spread cultural background knowledge of English speaking na-tions to improve students’language comprehension ability and cross-cultural communicative competence.
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