语言是文化的载体和媒介,是文化的主要表现形式。语言反映了一个社会的文化,脱离具体的社会文化载体,是难以掌握其语言的。早在20世纪初,美国语言学家Sapir在《Language》一书中就指出:“语言有一个环境,它不能脱离文化而存在,不能脱离社会继承下来的传统和信念”。英语教学是语言教学,当然离不开文化教育。 Language is the carrier and medium of culture and is the main form of culture. Language reflects the culture of a society. It is difficult to grasp its own language without being separated from the carrier of specific social culture. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, American linguist Sapir pointed out in his book “Language has an environment which can not exist without culture and can not be separated from the traditions and beliefs inherited by society.” English teaching is a language teaching, of course, can not do without cultural education.