Study of Dynamics of English Cultural Capitals

Abstract

This article is to investigate the dynamics of cultural capitals for Chinese students from the rural areas and from the emigrant families with an attempt to show the possible patterns for the development of ability to acquire cultural knowledge from the perspective of writing practice. The investigation proves that students from the rural areas and from the emigrant families have the more preference to use Chinese-style to express English ideas in the form of inappropriateness of word use, sentence structures, inadequacy of cohesion and coherence in discourse level than students from the cities in the initial stage of college years. In this research, It was found that the four step writing IIRR strategies (imitation, incursion, reconciliation and reproduction) can help those students to supply the gap of cultural capital which have lost in previous years and eventually accomplish academic success. The research findings also indicate that that the dynamic feature of cultural capitals and the attenuating tendency of family cultural capitals in college life for students.