| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第1-4页 |
| ENGLISH ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·Significance of Present Study | 第10-12页 |
| ·Background of the Problem | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter Two: Understanding Culture | 第15-22页 |
| ·Definitions of Culture | 第15页 |
| ·Characteristics of Culture | 第15-20页 |
| ·Culture is Learned | 第16-17页 |
| ·Culture is Transmitted from Generation to Generation | 第17页 |
| ·Culture is Subject to Change | 第17-19页 |
| ·Culture is Adaptive | 第19页 |
| ·Culture is Ethnocentric | 第19-20页 |
| ·Basic Functions of Culture | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter There: The Analysis and Discussions | 第22-27页 |
| ·Miscommunication between Chinese and Americans | 第22页 |
| ·The Cultural Inappropriacies | 第22-26页 |
| ·Sociolinguistically Inappropriate | 第22-23页 |
| ·Culturally Unacceptable | 第23-24页 |
| ·Conflict of Different Value Systems | 第24页 |
| ·Social-communication Customs | 第24-25页 |
| ·Over-simplification or Over-generalization | 第25-26页 |
| ·Remedy for the Cross-cultural Difficulties | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Four: Reasons and Goals of Cultural Background Teaching | 第27-33页 |
| ·The Reasons of Culture Teaching | 第27-31页 |
| ·The Reasons of Culture Teaching | 第27页 |
| ·Qeustionnaire and findings | 第27-31页 |
| ·Goals of Culture Teaching | 第31-33页 |
| ·Making Communicative Competence | 第31页 |
| ·Intercultural Understanding | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Five: Approaches of Developing Students' Culture Knowledge | 第33-41页 |
| ·Getting More Information | 第33页 |
| ·Learning Rather than Teaching | 第33-35页 |
| ·Developing an Awareness of Areas | 第35页 |
| ·Getting Rid of Duck Stuffing Type of Teaching | 第35-36页 |
| ·Using Authentic Materials | 第36-37页 |
| ·Providing Cultural Information | 第37-38页 |
| ·Solving Cultural Problems | 第38页 |
| ·Recognizing the Pragmatic Errors | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter Six: Pitfalls and Conclusion | 第41-45页 |
| ·Pitfalls | 第41-42页 |
| ·Implication | 第42-43页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第43-45页 |
| References | 第45-48页 |
