| Acknowledgement | 第4-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| English Abstract | 第6页 |
| Table of contents | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter I Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| 1．1 Literature review | 第10-13页 |
| 1．2 Need for the study | 第13-14页 |
| 1．3 Purpose of the study | 第14-15页 |
| 1．4 Definitions of the terms | 第15页 |
| 1．5 Research questions and hypothesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter II Culture teaching in TEFL | 第16-25页 |
| 2．1 Concepts of culture | 第16-18页 |
| 2．1．1 A general concept | 第16页 |
| 2．1．2 Specific connotations of culture | 第16-17页 |
| 2．1．3 Cultural contents | 第17-18页 |
| 2．1．4 Categories and dimensions of culture | 第18页 |
| 2．2 Relationship of culture and language | 第18-20页 |
| 2．3 Relationship of culture teaching and language teaching | 第20-23页 |
| 2．4 The importance of culture teaching | 第23-24页 |
| 2．5 The goal of culture teaching | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter III The application of multimedia in TEFL and culture teaching | 第25-35页 |
| 3．1 Definitions of multimedia | 第25-29页 |
| 3．2 Theoretical support of teaching foreign languages via multimedia | 第29-34页 |
| 3．2．1 Psychological perspective | 第29页 |
| 3．2．2 Cognitive perspective | 第29-31页 |
| 3．2．3 Constructivism perspective | 第31-33页 |
| 3．2．4 Bandura's theory | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3 Why multimedia is used for teaching culture? | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter IV Two approaches of teaching culture in TEFL | 第35-44页 |
| 4．1 The approach of traditional lecture format to teach culture | 第35-37页 |
| 4．2 The approach of using multimedia in culture teaching | 第37-41页 |
| 4．2．1 The teaching procedure in culture teaching via multimedia | 第40页 |
| 4．2．2 Advantages of cultureteaching via multimedia in TEFL | 第40页 |
| 4．2．3 The problems on using multimedia to teach culture in TEFL | 第40-41页 |
| 4．3 The obvious changes brought by multimedia approach | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter V Methodology | 第44-48页 |
| 5．1 Subjects | 第44页 |
| 5．2 Design of the study | 第44-46页 |
| 5．2．1 Interviews | 第44-45页 |
| 5．2．2 Observations | 第45页 |
| 5．2．3 Classes and examinations | 第45-46页 |
| 5．3 Results and analysis | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter VI Conclusions | 第48-49页 |
| Bibliography | 第49-52页 |
| Appendix A | 第52-53页 |
| Appendix B | 第53-56页 |
