语言是文化的载体,是文化不断变化与发展的产物。文化需要语言来传承,语言与文化相辅相成,二者不可分割。在教学中由于中西方文化存在着很大的差异,这就给英语学习者造成了很多学习上的困难。一、文化背景知识的导入在中学英语教学中的重要性文化背景是指人类经过长期的文化积淀沉积下来的具有较稳定的价值取向、思维模式、心理结构的总和。由此可见,语言是文化发展的一个重要部分,语言有其自身的文化内涵,要学好一门语言就必须了解该国的文化背景,如果不 Language is the carrier of culture, a product of the ever-changing culture and development. Culture needs language to inherit, language and culture complement each other, and the two are inseparable. Due to the great differences between Chinese and Western cultures in teaching, this has caused a lot of learning difficulties for English learners. I. The Importance of Importing Cultural Background Knowledge in Middle School English Teaching Cultural background refers to the sum of more stable value orientation, thinking mode and psychological structure deposited by human after long-term cultural accumulation. Thus, the language is an important part of cultural development, language has its own cultural connotation, to learn a language you must understand the country’s cultural background, if not