Strategies for Cultivating Cross-Cultural Awareness in High School English Reading Teaching under the Guidance of the New Curriculum

Abstract

Due to the advent of the information age, English, an internationally spoken language, is playing an increasingly important role in international communication. Language is a carrier of culture, so strengthening the cultural integration into reading teaching can improve students' language ability. At the high school level, reading and culture are two important components of learning English and deserve to be emphasized. Based on the new standards for high school English, this paper analyzes the characteristics and shortcomings of the current intercultural awareness cultivation by combining the new textbook in New Standard English of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, teachers' teaching design and teaching practice. After elaborating the importance of intercultural awareness in high school English learning, this paper further proposes corresponding teaching countermeasures to help cultivate students' intercultural awareness, improve students' cultural confidence, and provide a reference for students' comprehensive quality of students is provided.