语言和文化关系密切。长期以来,在英语教学中语言和文化的这种关系一直未得到足够的重视。在教学实践中,似乎认为只要进行听、说、读、写的训练,掌握了语音、词汇和语法规则就能理解英语和用英语进行交际。而实际上由于不了解语言的文化背景,不了解中西文化的差异,在英语学习和用英语进行交际中屡屡出现歧义误解频繁、语用失误迭出的现象,本文对此进行简要探讨。 Language and culture are closely related. For a long time, the relationship between language and culture in English teaching has not been enough attention. In teaching practice, it seems that we can understand English and communicate in English as long as we have training in listening, speaking, reading and writing, and mastered the rules of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. In fact, because they do not understand the cultural background of the language and do not understand the differences between Chinese and Western cultures, they frequently misunderstand disagreements and pragmatic mistakes in their English learning and communication. This article briefly discusses this issue.