Cooperation of Chinese and Russian teachers in teaching Russian Composition to Russian-major students

The syllabus requires students majoring in Russian to master the basic vocabulary and grammar in communication, and cultivates their skills of rhetoric syntax. Teaching composition aims to help students to use written forms for different purposes, which is the teaching task in Russian-major studentscomposition advancement. As far as composition teaching is concerned, we may find many errors in students' compositions. Errors could be roughly divided into language errors, discourse errors, and cultural errors due to the great difference of two nations in ways of thinking, cultures and customs, and values. The cultural difference is the main barrier in intercultural communication. Sometimes Chinese teachers do not indicate the first two kinds of errors, while it is easy for foreign teachers to correct them, and students can understand them easily. But the third kind of errors are more complicated, because they are hard to find for foreign teachers, and even though teachers correct such errors, students cannot understand them easily. Especially when one inherent custom doesn't exist in another culture, it is hard to express and comprehend.Cooperation of Chinese and Russian teachers can contribute to the improvement of intercultural communication of the two nations, perfect Chinese teachers' Russian, help foreign teachers know more about China and Chinese students, explore new teaching methods and improve students' writing skills.

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