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Cultural awareness in English writing
Cultural awareness in English writing

This paper discusses the problems existing in students' choice of words and sentences, paragraph organization and practical writing from the perspective of cultural factors that affect English writing, and points out that the teaching of writing class should not only combine the imparting of knowledge with the cultivation of ability, but also include cultural teaching.

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Paper Keywords: English writing? Cultural interference? Cultural awareness

1. Introduction

Kunming Metallurgy College has done a lot of work since the project "Introduction and Application of Cultural Elements in Professional English Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges" was launched. In the first stage, from the perspective of students' understanding of culture, through questionnaires and interviews, it is known that students have a superficial understanding of the relationship between language and culture and a weak cultural awareness in English learning, which leads to students' little knowledge of English-speaking countries' language and literature, religious customs, customs and habits, and affects their ability to use language for practical cross-cultural communication. As teachers, they are often good at traditional language and grammar teaching, but ignore the training and cultivation of students' intercultural communication ability. Therefore, we believe that in English teaching, to really improve students' English language application ability, we must strengthen the introduction of cultural factors.

2. Specific analysis

Language is a form of expression of culture, and the two are inseparable. If you want to learn a language well, you must learn the culture reflected by the language at the same time, and understand the differences between the national culture and the foreign language national culture and their language expressions. With the increasing frequency of international communication, the ability to communicate in English has attracted more and more attention from all walks of life. This communicative competence refers not only to oral ability, but also to written language, that is, English writing ability. In the author's English writing teaching, it is found that there are inevitably some differences in students' English compositions due to the differences in thinking habits between Chinese and Western cultures. Chinese thinking+English form? (Liu Hua: 2003) English version. This paper analyzes and discusses the problems existing in students' English composition from the aspects of diction, sentence formation, paragraph organization and practical writing, and points out that these problems are caused by the interference of Chinese and western cultural factors.

2. 1 wording

China people's way of thinking is vivid and intuitive, which is reflected in language? Chinese vocabulary tends to be concrete, often expressing the concept of imagination in real form, and expressing abstraction and content with concrete images. (Lianshuneng). So students like to use some vivid words to make their articles more vivid. If students like to use it? In the past, the people of China, Da Le, lived in dire straits. Yes, and the British and Americans are used to Da Le 1ife of ex? Hard work? . Accurate use of words is the basis of writing. Because students' Chinese vocabulary reserves are far greater than English vocabulary reserves, they are used to thinking in Chinese when writing, which will inevitably produce more authentic Chinese terms, namely Chinglish. For example: