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    3.2 Vivian Cook's Four Propositions.......... 21-22
    3.3 Vivian Cook's Integration Continuum.......... 22-23
    3.4 Summary.......... 23-24
Chapter Four Methodology ..........24-34
    4.1 Research Questions.......... 24
    4.2 Participants.......... 24-27
    4.3 Materials ..........27-30
    4.4 Experiment Design.......... 30-32
    4.5 Procedure.......... 32-34
Chapter Five Results and Discussion.......... 34-48
    5.1 Results..........34-41
        5.1.1 Results from the Response ..........34-36
        5.1.2 Results from the Judging Test.......... 36-41
    5.2 Discussion ..........41-48

Conclusion

In this thesis, the author made a survey about the distribution of cultural contents inSenior High English Published by BNU Press. The results show that the English-speakingcountries’ culture is the main part of cultural contents in the textbook and Chinese culture andother foreign countries’ culture are also considered. In addition, the author usedquestionnaires, tests and interview to make a survey on the current situation of English cultureteaching in senior high schools. Through analyzing the survey results, the author comes to theconclusion that the situation of English culture teaching in senior high schools is notsatisfactory.
The results of questionnaire and tests for students show that: first, most of studentsrealize the close relationship between language and culture, the importance of cultureknowledge in language learning and the significance to improve Chinese learners’competence in expressing Chinese culture in English; second, most of students know fewabout the cultural awareness objectives in The English Curriculum Standards for Senior HighSchools; third, the cultural contents in the textbook are not interesting enough and the culturalinput is insufficient in English language teaching; fourth, teachers of English don’t pay muchattention to culture teaching and their culture teaching methods are monotonous; fifth,students don’t have much interest toward culture learning; sixth, students’ competence inexpressing Chinese culture in English and their intercultural communicative competence are both very poor.
The results of questionnaire for teachers and interview questions for teachers show that:first, most of teachers realize the close relationship between language and culture, theimportance of culture teaching in improving students’ comprehensive language competenceand the importance to improve Chinese learners’ competence in expressing Chinese culture inEnglish; second, most of teachers don’t know many about the cultural awareness objectives,the intercultural communicative knowledge and the English culture teaching methods; third,more than half of teachers think there are few questions concerning cultural contents in theexercises and test papers; fourth, teachers think they have difficulties to conduct cultureteaching such as their poor cultural knowledge, the lack of culture teaching materials and soon.
Finally, this research puts forward some suggestions for improving English cultureteaching in senior high schools from t本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。