The Importance of Thought Patterns in English Teaching.docVIP

The Importance of Thought Patterns in English Teaching 　　Abstract： In English teaching， during the communication， students arrange languages to express their ides according to their own thought patterns and they could understand other peoples language simultaneously to form a kind of thought pattern similar to other peoples thought patterns. This paper compares English thought pattern with Chinese thought pattern， and provides some suggestion for English teaching of syntax and translation. 　　Key Words： thought pattern English teaching 　　ⅠThe comparison of English thought pattern and Chinese thought pattern in detail 　　To be exact， English-speaking people show favoritism to logic， while Chinese people show favoritism to imagination. The former are partial to analytic thought， and the latter are partial to synthetic thought. The former stress on straight linethought， but the latter stress on curvilinearthought. 　　For this reason， the study on how different thought patterns come is worth exploring. In English teaching and learning， two languages and， indeed， two thought patterns come into contact. Only by understanding the differences of two thought patterns and increasing our awareness can we reduce communicative problems in our interaction with native English speakers. Thus it is necessary to compare thought patterns in order to identify differences. This comparison of thought patterns with English being taught will open great vistas for our current English teaching and learning. Language learners developing a better understanding of distinctions in communication and increasingtheir awarenesscanmake our foreign language teaching and learning more successful. As we all know， in the communications between people with different thought patterns， the greatest barrier lies not only in the differences of languages， but also in those of thought patterns. Moreover， the main goal of language teaching is to developthe students’meaning potential and foster their abilit