Author(s)

Zhenhua Wei and Dajun Li

Corresponding Author

Zhenhua Wei

Abstract

In recent years, the role of education in society has become more and more obvious. At the same time, the problem of English teaching has been paid more and more attention by schools and parents. English teaching is the most important part of all kinds of language learning, but English learning is very complicated. Besides unlimited vocabulary, there are also complex grammar and formulas. It is impossible to improve English learning ability quickly by relying on the curriculum in schools alone. Therefore, this paper puts forward the hidden curriculum and further explores its role in English teaching. It also analyses the characteristics of the hidden curriculum and its relationship with the explicit curriculum. Two ways and means of implicit curriculum in English teaching are put forward. One is to construct the material-spatial atmosphere of English teaching, the other is to develop social implicit curriculum resources. Finally, it is concluded that the role of implicit curriculum in English teaching is that developing implicit curriculum can help reduce learning difficulties, and developing implicit curriculum can make language learning more interesting.

Keywords

Hidden curriculum; English Language Teaching; Explicit curriculum; Space atmosphere