English writing can objectively reflect students' ability of thinking, organizing and expressing.Chinese students always think in Chinese way and use English words to express their ideas in Chinese practice. Students may adopt word-for一word translation strategy while writing. We all know two typical jokesabout Chinglish："Good good study, day day up" and "You ask me, me ask who?" Such sentences are very ri-diculous and they can't be understood by foreigners, which reflect a serious problem exiting among Chinesestudents. This phenomenon is called Chinglish一Chinese English, an obstacle of improvement of students'writing ability. Chinglish is mainly caused by the strong interference of the mother tongue一Chinese.Typical errors are employed in the article to illustrate the causes and remedies of Chinglish in students' writ-ing, including the following aspects-vocabulary, sentence structure and textual structure. Based on the analysis, the paper will offer some practical solutions for conducting English writing courses, then the most essential way to reduce Chinglish are to build students' awareness of the distinction between English and Chinese,to increase the exposure to the authentic English and practice writing more often in order to adjust students'Chinese thinking mode to that of English, with the aim of helping students avoid Chinglish so as to improvetheir writing ability.
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