CHAPTER 1 A HISTORICAL PROBLEM OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 1
1.1 A historical trilogy 2
1.2 Two ways of selection 16
1.3 Old problems in new form 26
CHAPTER 2 OPTIONS FOR THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN CULTURES IN LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES 50
2.1 Paradigm 1:explicit cultural studies 51
2.2 Paradigm 2:communicative language teaching 73
2.3 Paradigm 3:inter-cultural communication 93
CHAPTER 3 MAINTAINING TRADITION OR MAKING CHANGES THROUGH CULTURE LEARNING 121
3.1 Contradiction:tradition and change 122
3.2 The role of foreign language education 145
3.3 The notion of culture in foreign language education 150
CHAPTER 4 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ITS RELEVANT CULTURES 164
4.1 EST:culturally-neutral? 165
4.2 EIL:culturally-arbitrary? 184
4.3 EFL in China:source and means 201
CHAPTER 5 FOCUSING ON CULTURAL CREATIVITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION 219
5.1 Clearing the ground 220
5.2 Focusing on cultural creativity 230
5.3 Implications for EFL curriculum reform in China 248
CHAPTER 6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 262
BIBLIOGRAPHY 270