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Preliminary Study English Professional Students Cultural Shock phenomenon and Reading comprehension ability relationship between the

Author: HanMengChun
Tutor: WangHong
School: Beijing International Studies University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Cultural adaptation the Analects English Professional Students Psychological distance Culture Shock Reading comprehension
CLC: G633.41
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

Schumann's cultural adaptation the Analects think that the, and the second language acquisition is the cultural to adapt to's a aspects, one person right second language culture degree of adaptation determines a person acquisition second language success or failure. Cultural adaptation the Analects stressed the second language acquisition yes by the learner with the what they have learned the language between cultures social distance and the psychological distance of the decision, social distance in the second language learning in the plays an important role, while the psychological distance the role of Only in social distance is not obvious circumstances that highlighted. In the Chinese learning English belong to Foreign Language Learning. Right the majority of Chinese people speaking, social distance may be regarded as an quantitative exists. In such a case, psychological distance pairs of Foreign Language Acquisition the impact of respect of is very significant, students to with foreign cultures the psychological distance the greater the, foreign language's learning the more difficult it make progress. Therefore, in the foreign language teaching, teachers should increase the cultural imported content, strengthen students' right of foreign cultures to learn more about, in order to reduce student pairs of in foreign cultures the psychological distance, thus contributing to student's Foreign Language Learning. Of the last century seven, since the eighties, domestic and foreign scholars had already started to study how to Using Cultural to adapt to the Analects guidance language teaching, right affect the psychological distance's four factors that (language barriers, cultural shock, motivations, and self-permeability Xing) conducted a analysis, in some respects also made great achievement. In these studies, language barriers genus the established of factors, the researchers generally In this regard do not make specific studies; pairs of Culture Shock research mostly stay in the theoretical stage, empirical Xing's investigation and study are not too many; pairs of learning motivation research has a number of articles results are published; while the self-permeability Xing due to individual Xing is too strong, inexpedient to proceed with collective research. In addition, the the above study can Most of the is not directed at English majors students, while the multi-against the non-English professional learners. View of this, this thesis from the explore the cultural shock in the whether the exists in the English majors middle to start, right English majors students' cultural to adapt to situation conducted a survey of, in order to explore the Culture Shock phenomena and their and Reading comprehension ability relationship between the. In this thesis, randomly selected a Beijing second Foreign Languages Institute English Academy 35 three grade students as the research object, conducted a reading ability test, cultural to adapt to situation surveys and cultural shock situation investigation. The results showed Culture Shock exist Yu foreign language learning process, the Cultural Shock's there in a certain extent hindered the English professional Students pair of oppositely Ying culture's to adapt to, resulting in English majors students' cultural adaptation level is not high. Survey results Meanwhile showed that, English majors students' cultural adaptation levels with their reading comprehension horizontal as well as professional English four the level of exists between the positive link. Through data analysis and discussion, this article pairs of how to in Reading Teaching strengthen cultural to adapt to put forward a few guiding principles, and pointed out that although the in the current the teaching process completely the introduction of cultural adaptation the Analects needs to be further questionable, but at least can take some measures will cultural teaching organic integrate into the Teaching Foreign Language Reading.

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