According to Lado(1957:2) in the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis,a student who comes into contact with a foreign language will find some features of it quite easy and others extremely difficult. Those elements that ar...According to Lado(1957:2) in the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis,a student who comes into contact with a foreign language will find some features of it quite easy and others extremely difficult. Those elements that are similar to his native language will be simple for him and those elements that are different will be difficult. Corder (1981:101)added that where the mother tongue is formally similar to the target language,a learner will pass more rapidly along the developmental continuum (or some parts of it)than where it differs. Eric Kellerman(1986) also believed that learners have intuitions about which language features they can transfer from their first language to the target language and which are less likely to be transferable. And Lee(1968)even held that the interference coming from the learner's native language to be the sole cause of difficulty and error in foreign language learning. Given that the Chinese character shi functions the same as an English copula,I would like to apply two theories to illustrate the syntactic features associated with copular usages in this dissertation.展开更多
文摘According to Lado(1957:2) in the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis,a student who comes into contact with a foreign language will find some features of it quite easy and others extremely difficult. Those elements that are similar to his native language will be simple for him and those elements that are different will be difficult. Corder (1981:101)added that where the mother tongue is formally similar to the target language,a learner will pass more rapidly along the developmental continuum (or some parts of it)than where it differs. Eric Kellerman(1986) also believed that learners have intuitions about which language features they can transfer from their first language to the target language and which are less likely to be transferable. And Lee(1968)even held that the interference coming from the learner's native language to be the sole cause of difficulty and error in foreign language learning. Given that the Chinese character shi functions the same as an English copula,I would like to apply two theories to illustrate the syntactic features associated with copular usages in this dissertation.
