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Cultural Transfer Among English Majors: a Case Study of Cross Cultural Awareness

Author: JieHuiHui
Tutor: LuJia
School: Ocean University of China
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Cultural migration English Majors Cross-cultural awareness Case Study
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract


With the development of society and the global economy wide range of scientific and cultural exchanges, cross-cultural communication between the different countries is more and more in-depth, the various cross communication barriers and difficulties caused due to the differences between the different cultures at the same time more and more highlight . In the process of cross-cultural communication and foreign language learning and use, learners often unconscious use of the nation's cultural norms to guide their own behavior and thinking, or to use the target language culture to guide words and deeds, and in order to determine and explain to others speech acts, thus inevitably occur between the various cultural influences and migration according to the cultural structure of the surface layer of culture and cultural points of deep cultural migration into the surface cultural Migration and deep cultural migration. The surface cultural migration refers to the culture of migration on the surface, such as the vocabulary of cultural migration and the culture of the speech line communication mode migration, migration generally very easy to be observed can be overcome if a little attention, many scholars have done this related research. The deep cultural Migration refers to the the psychological worldview and values ??at the cultural level of migration. And not readily detectable because of their belonging to the psychological level of consciousness, deep cultural migration research compared to surface cultural migration a lot less. Errors caused due to the migration of the deep cultural communication more destructive, and therefore to explore the deep cultural migration phenomenon to better strengthen cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two sides to avoid the misunderstanding of cultural cross-cultural communication, has a very important role. It has long been a tendency to focus on the Native Culture negative migration, cross-cultural communication and foreign language learning process and research on the culture of the target language mother-tongue communication is not a lot. This paper is analyzed from the perspective of cultural migration bi-cultural migration of English majors, and try the deep-seated cultural migration study on English Majors after learning that after three years of professional English daily communication because of the impact of English culture occurred significant cultural migration. This article includes the introduction and conclusion of seven parts. The first chapter of the introduction of cross-cultural communication, cultural migration issues, pointed out that today the importance of the study of the deep cultural. Chapter II Literature review and theoretical foundation: This chapter reviews the achievements of scholars in cultural migration research and blank areas to be studied. This chapter first expounded the basic concepts of culture, cultural structure classification, cultural migration to explore the deep cultural root causes of migration through the contrast of the Sino-US worldview, values ??and deep cultural factors and draw inspiration. The third chapter describes the methods used in this study, the tools of research, survey and data collection process. The fourth chapter is the core part of this paper, the analysis of survey data, according to the results of the data to investigate after three years of professional English learning, whether English culture English major seniors than freshman students had a significant impact . Questionnaire from equality, face, individualism, privacy, views money five aspects to analyze the impact of cultural migration. This section also analyzes the English Majors influenced by cultural migration and in what particular on the impact of English culture in which minimum, or it can be said to have been deeper in which - on aspects of Native Culture. Chapter V of the article on the results of this study the comprehensive elaboration and concluding summary analysis, pointed out that China's foreign language teaching needs to be improved and put forward three suggestions to improve learners' cultural awareness and cultural creativity. At the end of this chapter of the lack of research and on the basis of this study may be more extensive and in-depth research project.

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