Abstract
Many studies have shown that language acquisition has an important impact on Second Language Acquisition. The transfer of mother tongue falls into two kinds: positive transfer and negative transfer; positive transfer occurs when the habits of the two languages are similar; otherwise its negative transfer. Contrastive analysis, error analysis and inter-language theory have all deal with the negative transfer of language, which makes people understand native language’s negative transfer better and develops foreign language teaching. Chinese senior school students learn English on the basis of their Chinese. So they would be affected by their mother tongue and their knowledge. Based on that, the present writer wants to find out students’ problems in their English study by analyzing the mistakes according to language transfer theories. Such a study is also advantageous to the improvement of English teaching methods.
Highlights
We are all very familiar with the phenomenon that an Indian speaks English quite fluently but inevitably with an Indian accent
The interference of mother tongue is common in the second language acquisition, negative transfer occurs in many ways of language
The study of Inter-language overcome the shortcomings of CA and EA, absorb the reasonable part of them, make the content of second language acquisition be rich, it must promote the development of foreign language teaching
Summary
We are all very familiar with the phenomenon that an Indian speaks English quite fluently but inevitably with an Indian accent. 195-209), which always leads to negative or positive transfer; to the middle level students the negative transfer is especially obvious. From their articles we can find they write English compositions according to the way of Chinese; these articles generally are expressed as monotonous sentence, simple sentence stuffing, words and phrases mistaking, the grammar and expression just as Chinese thinking. The negative transfer of mother tongue is one of the important factors to the English level of the high school students. Before explaining how the negative transfer of mother tongue affects the senior high school students’ English writing, the literature review about language transfer should be presented
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