母语迁移对中国学生学习英语复合词影响的实证研究

Empirical Study on Mother Tongue Influence upon English Compound Word Learning of Chinese Students

在本研究中，笔者依据语言迁移理论，通过对高中、高职以及非英语专业本科生学习英语复合词的实证研究发现：中国学生在学习外语的过程中，语言迁移时有发生；但语言迁移发生的频率和范围则要受到三个因素的制约：（1）词汇排列顺序，（2）结构相似和（3）形态变化，两种语言在这三个因素上相似点越多，就越容易产生语言的迁移。

The present empirical study, based upon the language transfer theory, probes into the process of English compound words learning by the students from a key senior middle school, a vocational school and a university, and discovers that language transfer often occurs in foreign language learning, but its frequency and scope are restricted by the following three factors： （1） the sequence of word order; （2） the similarity in structure and （3） inflectional changes in word forms. The more similarities two languages have, the more likely language transfer occurs.