文化與英語教學：中學英語教師之看法與教學

Culture and English Teaching: How Do Secondary English Teachers Conceptualize and Instruct Culture?

蔡易蓉(Claire Yi-Jung Tsai)

指導教授 ： 常紹如教授

國立臺灣師範大學/文學院/英語學系/碩士(2001年)

摘要

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關鍵字

文化教學 ； 英語教學 ； 中等學校 ； 台灣

並列摘要

ABSTRACT
This empirical study aims at investigating how junior and senior high school English teachers conceptualize and instruct culture in their teaching of English. A questionnaire covering various issues about culture instruction and English teaching was developed by this researcher and distributed to 158 junior high school English teachers and 125 senior high school English teachers in Taipei City via mail. The returned questionnaires numbered 154, including 88 from junior high schools and 66 from senior high schools. The results revealed that culture was generally considered significant in foreign language teaching and was instructed by most of the subjects in their teaching of English. However, inadequacy was unveiled concerning the cultural components included in the teaching and the ways these teachers conducted their culture instruction. Besides, some problems—including the deficiency of teachers’ cultural knowledge, the inadequacy of cultural components in the English textbooks and teacher’s manuals, the difficulty in obtaining cultural materials and resources, and the constraint of instructional time—were found to hinder the teaching of culture. Based on these findings, some suggestions were made not only to English teachers but also to institutions of teacher education, secondary school authorities, textbook writers and publishers with the aim of achieving a more effective and efficient integration of culture and English teaching.

並列關鍵字

Culture instruction ； English teaching ； secondary school ； Taiwan

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