Author(s): Hou Huihui, Wang Xuefeng

Abstract: Language is a part of culture and it is also the carrier of culture. With the development of the globalization of world economy, more and more people are aware of the important role of cultural awareness in language learning. English Curriculum Standards of Ordinary Junior Middle Schools (2017) has stressed the importance of the cultivation of students’ cultural awareness, which includes cultural knowledge, cultural understanding, cross-cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication. The cultivation of cultural awareness helps students enhance their national identity, strengthen cultural self-confidence, and become civilized and socially responsible people. English reading plays an important role in English teaching and the cultural instruction should be closely connected with reading teaching, which can help students improve their cultural awareness and communicative competence. This paper firstly makes an introduction of cultural awareness in English reading teaching in senior high school, elaborates some relative concepts and then advocates some strategies on the cultivation of cultural awareness in junior middle school.

Keywords: cultural awareness, English reading teaching, strategies.

Article Info: Received: 01 April 2022; Received in revised form: 05 April 2022; Accepted: 07 April 2022; Available online: 15 April 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.72.34