A Study on Cultural Teaching for Non-English Majors Based on Cultural Acquisition

Abstract

Language acquisition is a complicated process. Only with grammar knowledge can the international talents never satisfy the need of the new century. However, language skill and cross-cultural communication is greatly restricted by cultural factors. The second language learning includes both language acquisition and cultural acquisition. The teaching mode on the basis of the second cultural acquisition theories is concerned about the fusion of language and culture. It is an organic combination of language teaching and cultural teaching. This paper breaks through the traditional thinking pattern and makes a systematical analysis about language learners’ learning motives, psychological process of the second cultural acquisition, and the learning results through the method of a questionnaire survey. Then, the introspection is proposed in both aspects teaching and learning, in order to achieve the goal of gradually improving non-English majors’ second language and cultural acquisition level and cross-cultural communicating ability. It is of practical significance for the future language and cultural teaching.