An Investigation And Analysis Into The Influence Of Cultural Differences On English Writing By Senior Middle School Students

Writing is a kind of written form of communication to express thoughts. It involves comprehensive usages of listening, speaking, reading and other language skills. These four skills are supplement with each other and promote each other. Therefore, in both theoretical and practical teaching domains, problems of writing have been the focus of language educators. Although reading is considered the most important subject in Chinese EFL teaching in senior high schools, the students'writing ability improves comparatively slowly and the results of teaching are not satisfying.One of the most important reasons for this situation is that students are not fully aware of the cultural differences between China and the west in the way of expressing. They often fail to think in the western way when writing. Language is one of the important conveyors of culture. Cultural differences between China and the western countries are the potential factors that influence the improvement of senior middle school students'English writing. Although there are many teaching researches on cultural differences, few are about the influence of cultural differences on English writing by senior middle school students.This paper focuses on the investigation and analysis into the influence of cultural differences on English writing by senior middle school students. It is divided into five parts. The first part is the brief introduction, which puts forward the main idea of this paper. The second part presents the background and present situation of the study on cultural differences. The third part is an analysis of the influence of cultural differences on English writing by senior middle school students, namely, differences of vocabulary, differences of mode of thinking and differences of discourse patterns. The fourth part is about strategies for winning through the influence, and the suggestions for teaching of writing are recommended. And the last part serves as a conclusion: to improve students'writing ability, stress should be placed on western culture teaching, cultural awareness cultivation, and writing practice in the teaching process of English writing.