| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract (English version) | 第5-8页 |
| Abstract (Chinese version) | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Necessity and significance of the study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Objectives of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter 2: Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| ·Culture and culture teaching | 第17-20页 |
| ·Culture | 第17页 |
| ·Language, culture and thought | 第17-18页 |
| ·Language teaching and culture teaching | 第18-19页 |
| ·Objectives of culture teaching | 第19-20页 |
| ·Approaches to educational psychology and their implications to language teaching | 第20-31页 |
| ·Constructivism and its representatives | 第22-23页 |
| ·Humanism and its representatives | 第23-26页 |
| ·Social interactionism and its representatives | 第26-28页 |
| ·The experiential learning cycle of cultural knowings | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter 3: Methodology of the research | 第31-40页 |
| ·A questionnaire study on the source of students' English sociocultural knowledge followed by a text-based sociocultural test | 第31-35页 |
| ·A questionnaire study on teacher's mediation | 第35-36页 |
| ·Interviews with some teachers | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter 4: Analysis of the findings | 第40-47页 |
| ·On questionnaire study on the source of students' sociocultural knowledge | 第40页 |
| ·On sociocultural test based on the textbook | 第40-41页 |
| ·On questionnaire study on teacher's role as mediator | 第41-42页 |
| ·On interviews with some teachers | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter 5: Suggestions: Teacher's Role as Mediator in Culture Teaching | 第47-63页 |
| ·Culture's significance in language classroom | 第48-49页 |
| ·Culture teaching in EFL | 第49-52页 |
| ·Three features of teacher's mediation in shaping a student-centered context of culture teaching | 第52-56页 |
| ·Significance | 第52-54页 |
| ·Purpose beyond here and now | 第54-55页 |
| ·Shared intention | 第55-56页 |
| ·Eight features of teacher's mediation in developing autonomous culture learners | 第56-63页 |
| ·A sense of competence, a belief in positive outcome | 第57-58页 |
| ·Goal-setting, control of behavior, challenge and awareness of change | 第58-60页 |
| ·Sharing and individuality | 第60-63页 |
| Chapter 6: Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| ·Major findings of the study | 第63-64页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第64-66页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for further research | 第66-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-71页 |
| Appendix A | 第71-75页 |
| Appendix B | 第75-78页 |
| Published papers during study of MA | 第78页 |
