What Are the Cognitive and Cultural Influence of Chinese Contexts on Students’ English Learning.docVIP

What Are the Cognitive and Cultural Influence of Chinese Contexts on Students’ English Learning? 　　Abstract: Language transfer is a common phenomenon in the language learning. Language transfer is the influence resulting from the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously acquired. This paper presents the importance , the current phenomenon of the Chinese students’ English writing and the influence o f Chinese cognition and culture on the students’ English writing .In the third part , it puts emphasis on making a contrastive study of the different characters between Chinese and English while analyzing the various mistakes in Chinese students’ English writing caused by the negative transfer from Chinese on the levels of lexis, syntax and discourse. The purpose is to minimize the negative influence from Chinese and improve students’ English writing. Key words: negative transfer from Chinese English writing, influence Chinglish 　　1.Introduction 　　Different countries have different cultures , which is known to us. “Culture is the collective programming of the mine which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another”(Hofstede , 1991). There is never co—existence between two language systems in the learners, but constant conflicts are mainly on cognition and culture. The mistakes made by students in the writing during their English learning come from the interference of Chinese on English, which is called cultural conflict , that’s to say, culture transfer. 　　Transfer is a psychological term, which refers to the influence of previous learning on subsequent learning. Transfer is the influence resulting from the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously (and perhaps imperfectly) acquired. (Odlin, 1989) Language transfer is a common phenomenon in the language learning. Language transfer is the effect of one language on the learn