Based on the researches of language transfer,contrastive analysis and error analysis,this paper tries to investigate the negative transfer of Chinese on Chinese students'English writings from the perspective of sy...Based on the researches of language transfer,contrastive analysis and error analysis,this paper tries to investigate the negative transfer of Chinese on Chinese students'English writings from the perspective of syntax.During one and a half months'teaching practice in Shannxi Hanzhong No.1 Middle School,the author lived through the real teaching process and found that there were lots of problems in students'English writings.The author makes a contrastive study of the different characteristics existing in Chinese and English languag es at the level of syntax,and analyses the typical syntactic errors appearing in the 60 students'English compositions collected from one or dinary class.These syntactic errors are caused by the negative transfer of Chinese.The purpose of the investigation is to study in what pat tern students have been influenced by Chinese in their English writings.Based on the findings and analysis of the mother tongue transfer on English writings,some implications are also provided in order to help minimize or eliminate the interference of negative transfer of the Chinese in students'English writings and improve the teaching and learning of English.展开更多
Nativist theory of language acquisition centers on the existence of LAD/UG,for the fact that children can produce novel sentences that have never been heard.Environmentalist theories hold that an organism's experi...Nativist theory of language acquisition centers on the existence of LAD/UG,for the fact that children can produce novel sentences that have never been heard.Environmentalist theories hold that an organism's experience is of greater signifi cance to the language development.Interactinists point out that neither the nativist nor the environmentalist theories are able to adequately account for SLA.The most comprehensive theory at present may be the interactionalist viewpoint,because it com bines previous theories with new ones to take into account innate and environmental influences as well as personal or cultural variables of language learners.展开更多
文摘Based on the researches of language transfer,contrastive analysis and error analysis,this paper tries to investigate the negative transfer of Chinese on Chinese students'English writings from the perspective of syntax.During one and a half months'teaching practice in Shannxi Hanzhong No.1 Middle School,the author lived through the real teaching process and found that there were lots of problems in students'English writings.The author makes a contrastive study of the different characteristics existing in Chinese and English languag es at the level of syntax,and analyses the typical syntactic errors appearing in the 60 students'English compositions collected from one or dinary class.These syntactic errors are caused by the negative transfer of Chinese.The purpose of the investigation is to study in what pat tern students have been influenced by Chinese in their English writings.Based on the findings and analysis of the mother tongue transfer on English writings,some implications are also provided in order to help minimize or eliminate the interference of negative transfer of the Chinese in students'English writings and improve the teaching and learning of English.
文摘Nativist theory of language acquisition centers on the existence of LAD/UG,for the fact that children can produce novel sentences that have never been heard.Environmentalist theories hold that an organism's experience is of greater signifi cance to the language development.Interactinists point out that neither the nativist nor the environmentalist theories are able to adequately account for SLA.The most comprehensive theory at present may be the interactionalist viewpoint,because it com bines previous theories with new ones to take into account innate and environmental influences as well as personal or cultural variables of language learners.
