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This paper takes cultural education in college English teaching as the research object, exploring the effective paths to integrate cultural education in the college English teaching process. Based on in-depth literature research and interviews, the study first illustrated the significance of cultural education in college English teaching. Language teaching is an important carrier of cultural transmission and a bridge of intercultural communication. After analyzing the current problems of cultural education in college English teaching, four suggested paths were proposed to create a multi-channel teaching model, build a multilateral curriculum system, strengthen the literacy of traditional Chinese culture and cultivate students' multicultural awareness. The findings will provide possible ways to integrate cultural education into college English teaching and cultivate a new generation with Chinese spirit, international vision and cross-cultural communication skills.

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Productive skills, especially writing, are the most problematic areas for ESL students. Nowadays, how to write a coherent text is of great importance particularly in argumentative writing. Based on Halliday and Hasan's theory, this article analyses the cohesive features in the 20 students' English argumentative writing from the Preliminary of "FLTRP Cup" English Writing Contest in 2017. The results indicate that there exist some problems in their wiring, such as overusing simple cohesive devices and misusing some cohesive devices. Therefore, the author suggests that the teachers of College English in Kunming University could focus much on giving instruction of cohesion theory and helping students learn how to use various cohesive devise appropriately in writing.

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