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A Contrastive Analysis of the Western and Chinese Ways of Thinking and Its Implication for Teaching Chinese to Foreigners.
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Jiwan, Bi – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1989
Suggests that the difficulties encountered by Westerners in learning Chinese are the result of native language interference, and interference caused by different customs and ways of thinking. A contrastive analysis of the different cultural aspects of Chinese and Western ways of thinking is presented. (VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Contrastive Linguistics