Exploring the Feasibility of Applying Memetics in Teaching English as Second Language

As communication between countries becomes increasingly frequent and international trades as well increase rapidly, English as a world common language is useful for assisting countries to communicate with each other. At the same time, the number of people in demand of second language teaching of English is also increasing exponentially. In the development process of second language teaching, there are various theories throughout history, either repellent or similar. Among them, the linguistics memetics is an innovative direction to do studies in applied linguistics in recent years. From the perspective of memetics, memes are deemed as cultural transmission unit, because memes can spread through imitation, therefore, language as one of the most important carriers for the transmission of memes takes an important position. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the theory of memetics to the area of second language teaching, thus to speed up the reform of second language teaching modes.