Author(s)

Qi Liu and Yidan Zhou

Corresponding Author

Qi Liu

ABSTRACT

College English curriculum aims to equip students with certain knowledge and skills, improve the cultural accomplishment and enhance the conscience of cross-cultural communication. But, owing to class hour arrangement and course design and the like, college English teachers lay more emphasis on language rather than culture. Teaching idioms’ origin and historical figures, closely related to daily use of English, are two usual modules in College English culture teaching. From the constructivist view, the thesis, on the basis of these two important modules of cultural teaching, introduces micro lesson to college English classroom, and discusses how micro video is produced and applied to inverted class, with the objectives that students can better command of English culture and make smooth, effective and depth dialogues with foreigners in the future.

KEYWORDS

Constructivism; culture teaching; micro lesson; inverted class