The Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on the Influences of Chinese English Learners' Listening and Speaking Ability and Countermeasures

Abstract

In the field of second language acquisition, transfer is a common phenomenon. The mother language system has positive or negative effects on second language learning, namely positive transfer, and negative transfer. As the mother tongue of Chinese English learners, Chinese also has some interference in their English learning, especially in listening and speaking. Based on the experiences of teaching and learning English, this author analyzes the influence of negative transfer of Chinese on the cultivation of students' English listening and speaking abilities and discusses the corresponding countermeasures from the perspective of contrastive analysis between English and Chinese.