It can be seen easily from the resu

It can be seen easily from the results of the research that the cultural instruction in reading teaching is treated as a dispensable part by many English teachers mainly because it is not related to examination closely. The teaching viewpoints which puts a high value on examination rather than the cultivation of cultural awareness is so utilitarian that it is detrimental to improve the students’ cross-cultural awareness as well as their cross-cultural communicative competence. The English Language Curriculum Standards for Senior High School has set cultural awareness and cross-cultural communicative competence as one of the teaching goals of foreign language education. The language and culture are closely related and the former is an important carrier of culture. Therefore, the teachers need to correctly handle the relationship between these two factors. Language teaching will go more smoothly if it is assisted by cultural instruction which can arouse students’ interest in target language. In addition, if the teachers separate the language and the culture and only focus on the linguistic knowledge such as grammar and vocabulary, their students can’t achieve the cross-cultural communication successfully but just can make some grammatically correct sentences (Jiao Xue 2014). Therefore, the teachers are responsible to help their students understand the target culture and broaden their horizons in order to improve their ability of using the target language as well as develop their cross-cultural awareness and communicative competence. In the process of cultural instruction, the teachers had better participate in the learning activities and cooperate with their students rather than just provide some information. The teacher can discuss with their students about certain cultural phenomenon in reading materials and listen to their students as well as respect their opinions. They can take part in the classroom activities such as the role play so as to arouse their students’ enthusiasm in language learning. The teacher can also share their experiences in culture learning with their students in