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1、WhatAretheCognitiveandCulturalInfluenceofChineseContextsonStudents’EnglishLearning? Abstract:Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearning.Languagetransferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlanguagethathasb
2、eenpreviouslyacquired.Thispaperpresentstheimportance,thecurrentphenomenonoftheChinesestudents’EnglishwritingandtheinfluenceofChinesecognitionandcultureonthestudents’Englishwriting.Inthethirdpart,itputsemphasisonmakingacontrastivestudyofthedifferentcharactersbetweenChinesean
3、dEnglishwhileanalyzingthevariousmistakesinChinesestudents’EnglishwritingcausedbythenegativetransferfromChineseonthelevelsoflexis,syntaxanddiscourse.ThepurposeistominimizethenegativeinfluencefromChineseandimprovestudents’Englishwriting.Keywords:negativetransferfromChineseEng
4、lishwriting,influenceChinglish 1.Introduction Differentcountrieshavedifferentcultures,whichisknowntous.“Cultureisthecollectiveprogrammingoftheminewhichdistinguishesthemembersofonecategoryofpeoplefromanother”(Hofstede,1991).Thereisneverco—existencebetweentwolanguagesystems
5、inthelearners,butconstantconflictsaremainlyoncognitionandculture.ThemistakesmadebystudentsinthewritingduringtheirEnglishlearningcomefromtheinterferenceofChineseonEnglish,whichiscalledculturalconflict,that’stosay,culturetransfer. Transferisapsychologicalterm,whichreferstoth
6、einfluenceofpreviouslearningonsubsequentlearning.Transferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlanguagethathasbeenpreviously(andperhapsimperfectly)acquired.(Odlin,1989)Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearn
7、ing.Languagetransferistheeffectofonelanguageonthelearningofanother.(LongmanDictionaryofLanguageTeaching&AppliedLinguistics,2000)Intheprocessoftheforeignlanguagelearning,learnerswillunconsciouslybringthepronunciation,lexical,grammaticalstructures,andthoughtsofthemothertongue
8、intothetargetlanguage.Asaresult,themothertonguehassomeinfluenceonthetargetlanguage