Analysis Of Chinglish In The English Writings Among Junior-year English Majors In China

Of the four basic skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, the last one is regarded as the advanced cognitive activity, which reflects the writer's mode of thinking. As English is a foreign language for Chinese learners, on the one hand, they will inevitably be affected by the first language—Chinese in one way or another. As a result, learners are inclined to produce Chinglish, which is a violation to the Standard English. On the other hand, Chinese characteristics will be more or less represented in the process of using English, which is defined as Chinese English. It can be and is recommended by many scholars to be coexisting with the Standard English.In applying the theories of language transfer and error analysis, this paper is firstly to lay out the conceivable causes of Chinglish in students' writings. Then the categories of Chinglish are provided om the basis of each cause. The paper also reviews the current teaching of English writing in universities and picks out some questions in teaching. By examining the third-year English majors' writings, some Chinglish examples are described according to the criteria deduced above. And then some English teaching and learning suggestions are put forward to avoid and rectify Chinglish. In the last part, some recommendations for further study are advanced.