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Meme Theory and Chinese―Writing Teaching in TCFL 　　Abstract Meme theory is a new theory in the field of pragmatics， which applied to the study of Chinese-Writing Teaching in TCFL. The transmitting of meme has four stages， namely the assimilation， the retention， the expression， the transmission. Because of the different context， Language memes mainly produce memetic genotype and memetic phenotype in the process of reproduction and transmission. This paper takes International students studying Chinese writing teaching as an example， and discusses the relationship between meme theory and Chinese-writing teaching in TCFL. If teachers taught Chinese writing according to the law of reproduction and transmission of the language memes， do help improve the learners’ Chinese 　　writing. 　　Key words： Meme theory； Language memes； Chinese writing teaching 　　Cheng， W. W.， Zhang， X. C. （2015）. Meme Theory and Chinese-Writing Teaching in TCFL. Higher Education of Social Science， 8（5）， -0. Available from： URL： http：///index.php/hess/article/view/7030 　　DOI： http：///10.3968/7030 　　INTRODUCTION 　　Writing is an important skill of language learning. Studies have shown that， the international students’ 　　Writing abilities are the worst among four basic skills： listening， speaking， reading and writing. Having studied Chinese language for many years， foreign students have accumulated a large vocabulary， yet they are so powerless when writing that they can’t write at their pleasure. So it is important and arduous to carry out the teaching of Chinese writing and improve the writing ability of foreign students. 　　In 1980s， linguists and researchers began to explore what should be taught and how to teach in writing lecture. In hence， the development of writing becomes the encumbrance of Chinese level improving for foreign students. Part of scholar have recognized the importance of writing and began to study writing teaching from the method of teaching， learner’s psychology and the