Differences and Similarities of Connotation between Chinese and English Vocabulary and the Implications on English Language Teaching

For various reasons, some English words and their Chinese equivalents have roughly the same meaning while some have very different connotations. Owing to the way in which the thinking of human beings behaves, students may easily understand some English words according to what they conceive in Chinese. Sometimes this may cause serious misunderstanding. The English teacher should alert the student of this phenomenon in their teaching so that the students may appropriately apply more words in their communication.