Negative Transfer of Mother Language in English Compositions by Jiujiang University Students

Yifei Wang

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20151401008

Abstract

Apart from the basic target language knowledge, the mode of thinking of mother tongue is the main factor to interfere students’ improvements in English writing, which has been a hot topic in linguistics and second language acquisition for a long time. Based on Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage Theory, the author becomes interested in negative transfer in English writing by consulting the related domestic and foreign theories and experiment research. The data used in this paper come from sixty three-year college students in their second year from Jiujiang University, majoring in English Education. The data were collected by writing tests. Based on analysis of the data, the following findings are obtained.

Highlights

Writing is a thinking activity, an expression way, which is one of the standards to measure teaching effects
Based on Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage Theory, the author becomes interested in negative transfer of attributive clause in English writing by consulting the related domestic and foreign theories and experiment research
(2) How do those interferences influence the Chinese students in English writing? The data used in this paper come from sixty three-year college students in their second year from Jiujiang University, majoring in English Education

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Introduction

Writing is a thinking activity, an expression way, which is one of the standards to measure teaching effects. Of the five basic skills, writing is commonly considered of the most difficult, the hardest to be improved in language. Language transfer has been an important issue in second language acquisition and foreign language teaching research. In the past decades, many researchers focused on the status and role of language transfer in second language acquisition. Today language transfer refers to the influence resulting from the similarities and differences between the target language and any other language that has been previously (and perhaps imperfectly) acquired. Based on Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and Interlanguage Theory, the author becomes interested in negative transfer of attributive clause in English writing by consulting the related domestic and foreign theories and experiment research.

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