文化教学和语言教学同样重要,这一观点已受到大多数学者(例如Byram etal and Kramsch)和英语教师的认可。在课堂上进行与英语内容相关的文化教学有助于学生全面深刻地了解英美国家文化,从而提高他们的交际能力。然而现有文献表明,有关文化教学的研究大多以大学和中学英语学习者为研究主体,很少涉及高等职业学校学生这个特殊的学习群体,揭示在该群体中实施文化教学的现状的研究就更少了。鉴于此,本研究以高职一年级导游专业的两个班学生为研究对象,以问卷调查为研究工具,从而揭示高职英语教学中文化教学的现状。通过数据收集与分析,有以下主要发现:问卷结果表明,高职英语教学中的文化教学开展得不尽如人意。虽然大多数高职生对英美文化很感兴趣,渴望从老师那里学到很多文化知识,但英语教师上课很少涉及文化知识,即使讲解文化知识,方式又很单一。学生们过于依赖教师,课后自己独立学习英美文化知识的时间少,学习方式也很单一。本研究结果对高职英语文化教学如何教与学也具有一定的启示。 Cultural teaching is as important as language teaching, a view that has been endorsed by most scholars (eg Byram etal and Kramsch) and English teachers. Conducting cultural teaching related to English content in the classroom helps students to fully understand Anglo-American culture and improve their communicative competence. However, the existing literature shows that most of the studies on cultural teaching mainly focus on university and middle school English learners, and rarely involve the special learning groups of students in higher vocational schools. It is even more revealing that the status quo of conducting cultural teaching in this group is even more not enough. In view of this, this study takes two classes of students majoring in vocational education as the research object, using the questionnaire as the research tool to reveal the status quo of the teaching of English in vocational colleges. Through the data collection and analysis, the following main findings were obtained: The questionnaire results show that the cultural teaching in higher vocational English teaching is not carried out satisfactorily. Although most of the students in higher vocational colleges are very interested in Anglo-American culture and are eager to learn a lot of cultural knowledge from their teachers, English teachers seldom involve cultural knowledge in class. Even if they explain cultural knowledge, they have a very simple way. Students rely too much on teachers. After class, they spend less time independently studying Anglo-American cultural knowledge and learning styles are simple. The results of this study have some enlightenment on how to teach and study English teaching in vocational colleges.