The role of British and American culture in English teaching
With the continuous development of China's social economy, the demand for high level English talents has gradually increased in all walks of life, and higher requirements have been put forward for college English. In this context, college English is an extremely important part of the university's various disciplines, and college English teaching is extremely important. High level English talents not only need to have sufficient knowledge of English, but also need to have the ability to use English flexibly. They are proficient in using English to communicate. This requires a certain understanding and mastery of English and American cultural knowledge. Therefore, this paper first studies the current situation of English and American cultural content on college English teaching, and then analyzes the English and American cultural content that can be infiltrated in college English. Finally, according to the actual situation, it puts forward the relevant ways to penetrate into English and American culture in college English teaching. 1. The current situation of English and American cultural content on college English teaching 1.1 The influence of historical and cultural knowledge The educational concept of the Soviet Union has had a profound impact on English teaching in China. In the early stage of the development of English teaching in China, influenced by the Cold War, the Soviet government's control over the penetration of English culture in teaching was extremely strict, and it was hoped that this way would expose the colonialist concept of Western capitalist countries. It further vilified the image of Western capitalist countries. Under this background, the English teaching in China is separated from the English and American cultural knowledge, which also affects the development of English teaching in China to a certain extent, which leads to the weak penetration of British and American cultural knowledge in the current college English teaching in China. 1.2 The influence of religious and cultural knowledge Under the influence of China's exam oriented education, the English test for the fourth and sixth grades in college English teaching is the roadblock for learning English knowledge for the vast majority of students. And, it is also the focus of most English teachers. The current students' English learning is only for passing the 4th and 6th grade exams, and the college English teachers grasp this feature, listening, speaking, reading and writing in English vocabulary, English grammar, English listening, English reading and other English. "To conduct comprehensive teaching and explanation. Instead, it ignores the Anglo American cultural background that is closely related to English learning. As a result, some students have passed the English exams of Grades 4 and 6. However, due to the lack of understanding of the background knowledge of English and American cultures, only the fixed templates and sentence patterns can be applied in the practical application of English, which is easy to cause communication errors and even appear to be absent. solution. To a certain extent, it hinders the international communication and communication of students, and gradually forms cultural barriers. Therefore, in college English teaching, college English teachers should not only pay attention to the teaching of English vocabulary, English grammar, English listening, English reading, etc. but more 2019 3rd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2019) Copyright (c) (2019) Francis Academic Press, UK DOI: 10.25236/icemeet.2019.381 1899 importantly, the teaching of English and American cultural background knowledge, so that students not only have a good knowledge of English knowledge. It also has a certain level of English thinking and cultural awareness, which in turn helps students to use English more professionally and freely to communicate and communicate internationally. 2. The British and American cultural content that can be infiltrated in college English 2.1 Anglo American national culture Any country or democratic language has its own unique national culture and national culture, as well as English. In college English teaching, we must pay attention to the penetration of its national culture. Nowadays, most universities have already opened relevant teaching courses, such as "Anglo American Home Summary" and "American Society and Culture" The opening of these courses will help students better understand the British and American background culture knowledge, and then promote students to better learn, understand and master English. In actual teaching, college English teachers should guide students to discover and explore the British and American national culture, and express them through the knowledge they have learned, and integrate the culture into the actual teaching. 2.2 British and American customs Customs and habits are formed in a certain group and require long term accumulation. The customs and habits formed in daily life can be accepted by most members, such as clothing, food, housing and other aspects of behavior and habits. In the process of the formation of customs and habits, the customs and habits of various ethnic groups will have a certain degree of difference due to various factors, and even the opposite will be true. For example, when Chinese people meet and say hello, they usually use "What's going on recently? What are you busy with?" "Did you eat? What to eat? Didn't eat me to eat." etc. even ask about income, marriage, children. These issues are all about concern and friendliness. But in the United States and the United States, this custom is incomprehensible and unaccepTable. In their mindset these are their privacy, and these issues touch their privacy, which is "privacy." These are different customs and habits of different countries, different nationalities and different regions. By understanding different customs and habits, students can more easily face cross cultural interpersonal interactions, thus ensuring the effectiveness of students in international communication. 2.3 The cultural connotation of English and American vocabulary Vocabulary is the basic unit of language. Because of the different cultural environments, the connotation and extension of the same vocabulary will be different. For example, "poverty falls" most students will understand "be penniless and frustrated" but correct The translation should be "as poor as church mouse" which is incomprehensible to the Chinese. Can't understand what the church mouse has to do with poverty? But in the United States and the United States, the vast majority of people believe in Christianity, and the church is different from the temple. There is no tribute, so the rats in the church are the poorest among all the mice. 3. The relevant ways to penetrate English and American culture in college English teaching 3.1 Explanation of English vocabulary English vocabulary is the basic content of English learning. There are a lot of English and American cultural backgrounds in English vocabulary. Every English word and every English vocabulary has its own story. With the continuous development and progress of the society, some English words have extended meanings and style meanings. A certain word has different meanings due to different language environments. This is the cultural connotation hidden in English words. Moreover, due to the existence of cultural differences, it is impossible to apply the native language