Study of the Cultivation of Cultural Awareness in Senior High School English Teaching

Abstract

This study takes a high school senior English teacher and students in a high school in Chengdu as the research subjects, and uses questionnaire survey method and interview method to understand the current situation of cultivating students’ cultural awareness in high school English teaching. The findings revealed that the following problems exist in the cultivation of cultural awareness in schools: weak cultural literacy of teachers and students, heavy teaching tasks under exam-oriented education without time for the cultivation of cultural awareness, a single approach to teaching culture, and insufficient depth of teachers’ exploration of cultural elements in the new curriculum and teaching materials. In response to the above problems, the author puts forward teaching suggestions based on the current situation of high school culture teaching from three aspects: schools, teachers and students, in order to promote the cultivation of cultural awareness among high school students.