How to Improve Chinese Students’ English Writing from the Cultural Teaching and Learning.docVIP

How to Improve Chinese Students’ English Writing from the Cultural Teaching and Learning 　　【Abstract】The Chinese students English writing belongs to intercultural communication. Many problems occur mainly because the lack of the cultural awareness and knowledge， and it offers an angle for the discussion in the thesis. This thesis attempts to explore the relationship between culture and writing， and highlight the importance of culture teaching in English writing course. It is also designed to propose several approaches to development of English writing from both teachers and students’ perspective. 【Key words】Culture； English writing； Culture teaching 1 The Importance of Application on Culture Teaching in the College English Writing Class Culture teaching needs to be applied to Chinese college English writing class， and it is supported by the innate closeness of language， culture and thinking， and the inseparable relation between thinking and writing. The lack of intercultural awareness will make the understanding of readers from different cultures frustrating and fraught with misunderstandings. Of the four skills （listening， speaking， reading and writing）， writing has always been the most problematic part for Chinese college students and difficult for their teachers to help. Most English writings of Chinese students read so much like translation of Chinese， and one can fairly easily tell whether an article was written by a Chinese or by a native speaker of English. The biggest problem with the English composition of Chinese college students is that most of them just translate Chinese expressions and writing patterns to English， and usually a word for word translation from Chinese to English. That may account for their inadequacy of linguistic competence and the interference of Chinese writing habit. From students English writing we can find that not only linguistic transfer but also cultural transfer can lead to the problem in Chinese students’ English