长期以来,初中英语教学往往只注重培养学生的应试能力,忽视了英美文化知识的传授,导致学生在实际语言运用中出现很多错误。随着新课程改革的不断进行,随着新课程的思想和理念不断地渗透到教师教学的过程中,许多英语教师认识到了文化背景知识对培养学生综合语言运用能力的重要性。但是,在教学实践中,教师该如何将文化背景知识融入到英语教学,成为了诸多英语教师困惑的问题。本文正是基于上述思考,以初中英语教学为立足点,在探讨初中英语教学融入文化背景知识的必要性和重要性的基础上,探索多种实现文化背景知识传授的策略,希望能对初中英语文化教学有所启示和帮助。一、初中英语教学中融入文化背景知识的必要性1、现阶段初中生欠缺英美文化背景知识笔者曾在2008年年底对初中一年级到三 For a long time, junior high school English teaching tends to focus only on developing students ability to take the examination, ignoring the teaching of British and American culture, resulting in a lot of mistakes students use in the actual language. With the continuous reform of the new curriculum, as the new curriculum ideas and concepts continue to infiltrate teachers ’teaching process, many English teachers recognize the importance of cultural background knowledge in cultivating students’ ability of using integrated language. However, in teaching practice, how teachers should integrate cultural background knowledge into English teaching has become a problem confused by many English teachers. This article is based on the above thinking, based on the junior high school English teaching as a foothold, to explore the necessity and importance of junior high school English teaching to integrate cultural background knowledge, based on the exploration of a variety of strategies to achieve the cultural background knowledge, hoping to junior high school English Cultural teaching has some inspiration and help. First, the junior high school English teaching into the cultural background of the need for knowledge 1, junior high school students lack of knowledge of the Anglo-American cultural background At the end of 2008 on the junior high school to three