外语教学不仅是语言的教学,还包括文化背景知识的教学,而文化背景知识却是大学英语教学的重点和难点。随着多媒体教学的普及和教学设施的完善,很多的老师喜欢在课堂上为学生放映英文原版电影。实践证明影视片段作为一种教学辅助手段,以其特有的优势和良好的教学效果,已经越来越被英语教学者所认可并在教学中积极使用。为了能够让电影更好地发挥其作用,教师在教学中应注意哪些问题,如何利用电影提高教学质量等,都是值得深入研讨的。 Foreign language teaching is not only a language teaching but also includes the teaching of cultural background knowledge. Cultural background knowledge is the key and difficult point in college English teaching. With the popularization of multimedia teaching and the improvement of teaching facilities, many teachers like to show English original movies for students in class. It has been proved that the film and television clips are used as an auxiliary teaching method. With their unique advantages and good teaching effects, they have been increasingly recognized by English language teachers and used actively in teaching. In order to allow the film to better play its role, teachers should pay attention to what issues should be paid attention to in teaching, how to use films to improve the quality of teaching, etc., are worthy of in-depth discussion.