The Transfer and Influence of Mother Tongue in English Language Learning

Abstract

With the rapid development of society, communication becomes frequent, language as a medium is particularly important, and the demand for English among Chinese native learners is further expanded. In second language learning, ingrained native thinking deeply influences people, and native thinking is then applied to learning the language. Starting from the theory of the transfer of mother tongue, this paper focuses on the effects of positive and negative the transfer of mother tongue on learners in English learning. Through the methods of comparative analysis and case study, it lists the positive or negative impacts that the possible similarities or differences bring people and analyzes the methods that can avoid the negative the transfer of mother tongue. The purpose is to enable learners to understand the language differences more fully, to minimize the weakening of the negative transfer of the mother tongue, and to overcome the difficulties caused by the negative transfer, which plays an important role in enhancing the learners' learning efficiency and language proficiency. From this research, it can be seen that the transfer and influence of mother tongue in English language learning can not be eliminated. But people can use positive native language transfer positively, and people cannot ignore the threat of overuse of the native language to English language learning either.