By analyzing two types of English pragmatic failure and the causes of English pragmatic failure,this paper attaches importance to cultural instruction and tries to explore possible ways to promote students cultural acquisition ability and their sensitivity to pragmatic failure to improve their communicative competence and to help them avoid unnecessary failure in communication.

What cultural acquisition has to do is to help the learner recognize the limitations of any particular cultures, including both the learner s own culture and the culture(s) of the native target language speakers, and learn to be able to negotiate with people from .

Language and culture evolve together, therefore, culture acquisition is a part of EFL acquisition.

This paper attempts to study the functions that group presentation performs on culture acquisition in college English intensive-reading classes.

The process of language acquisition is also the process of culture acquisition.

This paper tries to describe the model of second culture acquisition,based on which an intercultural approach to foreign language teaching(FLT) is proposed.

This thesis reports an empirical study concerning students’second culture acquisition (SCA) and the current state of culture teaching in foreign language teaching.

In the light of applied linguistics and the current situation regarding the foreign language teaching in China, a pair of new concepts "acquisition of foreign language" and "acquisition of alien culture" are offered hereto in contrast with the "acquisition of second language" and "acquisition of second culture".