scholarly journals comparison between freshmen and sophomores EFL writing of Chinese students from the perspective of pragmatic failures

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
He Dan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Culture Learning ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Pragmatic Failure ◽  
Comparison And Analysis

This thesis is intended to probe into improve Chinese college students English writing from the perspective of pragmatic failure. T here is an experimental study with a questionnaire is analyzed to infer the students opinions and habits in English writing and culture learning and teaching. All the data and results of the research are analyzed to infer the causes of pragmatic failures in students English writing. The comparison and analysis between the two grades may show us to what extent these students improved and changed in their English writing in the two years

scholarly journals Research on the pragmatic failures in the EFL writing of Chinese students

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
He Dan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Culture Learning ◽  
Efl Writing ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Pragmatic Failure

Writing is an instrument of communication; the Chinese students English writing belongs to intercultura l communication. P ragmatic failure occurs mainly because the lack of the cultural awareness and knowledge, and it offers an angle for the discussion in the thesis. T his thesis is intended to probe into how to develop Chinese students English writing from the perspective of pragmatic failure. T here is an experimental study with a questionnaire is analyzed to infer the students opinions and habits in English writing and culture learning and teaching. All the data and results of the research are analyzed to infer the causes of pragmatic failures in students English writing.

scholarly journals A Study on the Improvement of English Writing Competence for College Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1344
Author(s):  
Xiu Zeng
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Writing Problems ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Writing Competence

English writing has long been viewed as a challenge to most Chinese college students because of their weak language foundation, limited expanse of ideas and inadequate targeted practice for the production of satisfactory written work. Attention has constantly been directed to the low efficiency in the writing teaching. By adopting some widely used approaches, this paper tries to explore efficient ways to integrate writing into the whole process of English learning and teaching. The focus of this paper is put on the suggested solutions to writing problems and the improvement in the efficiency of English writing learning and teaching.

Culture and Importance of Backgrounds: A Cross-Cultural Study of Photograph Taking

2010 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 603-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Adam Smithson ◽  
Ethan Spann ◽  
Fang Ruan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Intended Target ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
American Students ◽  
Individualistic Culture

To compare the focus on targeted people while taking a photograph, samples of American and Chinese college students were randomly selected and asked to take casual pictures of people around them with digital cameras. About 200 photographs were rated for the focus on the intended target in the picture. American students were more likely to focus on the targeted individual, while the Chinese students were more likely to attend to the background and the environment of the targeted individual. The findings imply that for the Chinese college students, the environment can be equally important as the person. Possibly for Americans the environment is less important due to the more individualistic culture.

scholarly journals Project-based Language Learning: Email Exchanges between Non-native English Speakers

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 941
Author(s):  
Sue Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Efl College Students ◽  
Efl Learning

his study presents the findings of an email exchange project between Chinese and Korean EFL college students. With the non-native speakers of English far outnumbered the native speakers, it is necessary to investigate the interactions between these non-native speakers whose communication is made possible only through English. 36 Chinese EFL college students participated in this e-pal project with a group of 28 Korean EFL college students. This paper reported the Chinese students’ perceptions and their attitudes towards interactions through email exchange with their non-native counterparts. Implications of using project as an approach in EFL learning and teaching is also discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring Visual Mispronunciation at Segmental Level among EL 2 Chinese Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Chao Wu ◽  
Pan Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
English Pronunciation ◽  
Research Findings

In our pronunciation courses, segmental level in English pronunciation plays a very important role in perception and teaching of English pronunciation. This research aims to investigate into the most salient pronunciation problems at segmental level by fresh college students from Mainland China through an experimental study, and it is found that the mismatches identified in the segmental level of English pronunciation are corresponded with the phonological features of the utterance of Chinese English. Moreover, in order to improve fresh college students’ pronunciation and achieve the pronunciation of Standard English, some pedagogical implications and suggestions about teaching strategies are provided in this study which aimed at the most salient mismatches discovered in the research findings. 

scholarly journals Strategies of Pragmatic Distance Employed in English Writing by Chinese College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
Junqiang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Relevance Theory ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Writing Proficiency ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Pragmatic Communication ◽  
And Gender

The situation of English writing by Chinese college students is a matter difficult to handle, with some being good and some bad. The flexible processing of pragmatic distance in English writings between authors and readers to ensure effective pragmatic communication deserves too much thought. The appropriate use of strategies of pragmatic distance employed in English writings has a direct impact on writing performance. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze how to use relevance theory to interpret strategies of pragmatic distance employed in English writings, and to find out whether there is a certain relationship between the strategic use of pragmatic distance and gender, thus providing a reference for the research to improve English writing proficiency of Chinese college students.

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