英语教学中,教师往往比较重视语言的外在形式和语法结构,即培养学生造出合乎语法规则的句子,而忽视了语言的社会环境,特别是语言的文化差异,使学生难以知道什么场合该说什么话,从而忽视了学生的交际能力。在此,语言的文化差异在英语教学中的作用作为一个重要问题被提了出来 In English teaching, teachers tend to place more emphasis on the external forms and grammatical structures of language, that is, cultivating students to create sentences that conform to grammatical rules while neglecting the social environment of language, especially the cultural differences of languages, making it difficult for students to know where What to say, thus ignoring the students’ communicative competence. Here, the role of cultural differences in English in English teaching is raised as an important issue