Differences between Chinese and Western Thinking i

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Differences between Chinese and Western Thinking in College English Writing Teaching

Abstract: The writing is a very important in college English teaching content. However, the teachers and students have made great efforts, all kinds of writing pedagogy is also a dark horse, but the effect is not obvious, the writing skills of students are still generally low. Of course, a variety of reasons which is also very complex, it is necessary to try to find a new breakthrough. Chinese students encountered difficulties in writing in English, in addition to language, and more importantly due to the difference between Chinese and Western Thinking on the model. This paper first analyzes the relationship between

language and thought, thus describes the main differences between English and Chinese thinking and its application in writing the main performance of the final

recommendations to school teachers in the teaching process pay attention to students of this awareness and to enhance the training. Therefore, the analysis of two different peoples have different mode of thinking and its use of language differences that can be applied to foreign language teaching them go, for the teaching of writing to open a new path.

Keywords: teaching of writing, language, and thinking, English-Chinese contrast, mode of thinking

Abstract: Writing is a very important item in college English teaching. However,

teachers and students have all made great efforts and various teaching methods about teaching English writing mushroom like bamboo shoots after spring, the result is still not obvious and students' writing ability generally remains in a low level. Any teaching

method is not perfect and sufficient, and even students with a good knowledge of English still cannot write beautifully. English and Chinese belong to different language families, which results in different thinking styles, so they follow separate ways of using language to form a text. Therefore the point can be put into practice in teaching foreign language and open a new breakthrough for teaching English writing.

Keywords:: English writing teaching, language and thinking, contrastive study between English and Chinese, thought patterns

1 Introduction

The ultimate goal of English teaching is to enable students to use English as the ability to write and orally as a tool to communicate. Writing is the highest level of English to use. Writing teaching college English teaching in an extremely important part of writing skills to a large extent reflects the students to master the English language knowledge and ability level. However, how to improve students writing skills among students and

teachers a feeling of headache. On the one hand, lack of knowledge of English to master the other hand, grasp a lot of words, sentences or expressions may not be able to write a

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nice article to English. A variety of objective reality, the hidden reason is extremely complex, who together led to the current college English teaching of writing or

embarrassing situations.

However, after careful study of Chinese students in writing can be found, the main problem is that articles often English is the language of Chinese thought, Chinese flavor was too strong. Writing is not just spelling and grammar is right or wrong, but the main thing is how to organize the chapters, and to express their views, which to a large extent with the English and two different peoples have different thinking patterns. In other

words, as they are inevitably influenced by the impact of its own mode of thinking, even if they are proficient in grammar, know how to select the phraseology, and even sentences into a paragraph, its composition will still be more or less in Chinese cavity. To exclude such interference, we must start from the statement, chapter structure, organization and other aspects of the use of rhetorical means to distinguish the difference between English and Chinese in order to correct words and sentences, thus gradually improving college English writing skills. This study from this point of view of the similarities and differences between English and Chinese ways of thinking and its impact on the discourse

organization, and strive for China's College English Teaching of Writing to provide some new perspective.

Second, the similarities and differences between the way Chinese and Western Thinking

English and Chinese with the common human language, but belong to two completely different languages, thus those who speak both languages of thinking is different. Different ethnic groups have their different mode of thinking, thinking and thinking characteristics of style, these differences are reflected in the language extensively. Each language implied a national way of thinking, and thinking, in turn, the language of words, sentence Structure resulted in the dominant role of the intrinsic form of the language groups in the unique language of psychological tendencies. Between the two languages, English and Chinese is no exception.

1, the British national emphasis on abstract thinking, Han ethnic re-thinking in images. Abstract thinking and image of human thinking is in close contact and mutual

penetration. However, due to the different cultural traditions, people's preferences are different between the two. English National specializes in using abstractions to express the specific things, more emphasis on the use of abstract thinking ability, while the Han Chinese on the contrary, respect for Nature and Humanity, more accustomed to the use of the image of ways to express abstract concepts, and less emphasis on pure sense of abstract thinking. This kind of thinking to different forms of the language as follows: The frequent use of abstract nouns in English to express the concept of a complex rational,

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