Implications of the Language Transfer to English Reading

Reading plays an essential role in English skills. This study aims to help English teachers find better ways to facilitate students' reading. Learners' native or first language(L1) may be beneficial to their second language(L2) reading by understanding language transfer and their types of schemata between L1 and L2. Meanwhile, some implications are given to the reading teachers in this paper.

Negative Cultural Transfer in English Teaching and Its Alleviating Principles

Teaching English as a foreign language is not tantamount to elaborating on syntactic structures or learning new vocabulary and expressions, but should incorporate some cultural elements which are intertwined with the language itself. The main premise of the paper is that effective communication is more than a matter of linguistic proficiency and the learner's pragmatic competence is more or less arrested by the negative cultural transfer from the mother tongue, and based on that premise, the paper analyses the reasons behind negative cultural transfer from the lexical dimension, the speech act dimension, and the psychological dimension, and concludes with a tripartite toolkit of alleviating principles respectively corresponding to the classroom instruction, the teachers, and the students.

The Study of English Negative Transfer to French Language Learning with French Majors

English language(EL) and French language(FL) are very similar in their language attributes-lexicon,syntax and tenses.During FL acquisition,especially during the early acquisition stages,FL learners are strongly influenced by their EL forms.The essential point of this paper is to distinguish the differences and similarities of the EL and FL,then to suggest some strategies to restrain the negative transfer effectively,which would be helpful in third language acquisition.

The Study of English Negative Transfer to French Language Learning with French Majors

English language(EL) and French language(FL) are very similar in their language attributes-lexicon,syntax and tenses.During FL acquisition,especially during the early acquisition stages,FL learners are strongly influenced by their EL forms.The essential point of this paper is to distinguish the differences and similarities of the EL and FL,then to suggest some strategies to restrain the negative transfer effectively,which would be helpful in third language acquisition.

A Contrastive Analysis between English and Chinese Pronunciation——Positive Transfer on English Phonetics Learning

This thesis, based on the psychological foundation of Contrastive Analysis——language transfer, is to explore a better method for children to make use of our mother tongue——Chinese Pinyin to learn English phonemes. It mainly studies the similarities between Chinese Pinyin and English phonemes. And the author views that owing to children’s individual requirements of development, teachers can lead children to connecting their previous existing Chinese Pinyin knowledge with their new knowledge and take the advantages of these similarities to make a positive transfer in learning English phonemes.

On Negative Transfer in Pronunciation by English Majors in Higher Vo cational and Technical Colleges

In the reform of educational structure in China recently, vocational education is being focused and higher vocational education is developing rapidly. With the increase of student enrollment in Higher Vocational Technical College (HVTC), the quality of students is declining in the meantime and especially the students who major in English have a low proficiency in English language. This thesis explores the theory of phonetics and the theory of transfer in second language learning and deals with negative transfer of mother tongue in segmental and supra-segmental levels to HVTC students when they learn English pronunciation and intonation.

A Brief Analysis on the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in Junior School Students’ English Writing

Since the students are influenced by Chinese thinking pattern,they apply Chinese linguistic knowledge in English writ-ing.This paper analyzes the influence of the negative transfer of mother tongue in English writing from the levels of lexis,syntaxand discourse.The aim is to pursue some efficient methods of the improvement of college English writing.

A Discussion on the Role of First Language (Chinese) Positive Transfer in Second Language (English) Lexical Acquisition and Related Pedagogical Suggestions

Language transfer is one of the central questions in second language acquisition (SLA) study. It claims that learners' the native language (NL) or first language (L1) will make great impacts, either promoting or hindering, on their second language (L2) acquisition, i.e. positive transfer and negative transfer. The issue has been widely concerned and researched in such relative fields as language education and psychological study during the past years. It is far beyond the scope of this paper to discuss it thoroughly since the scope of L1 influence is so wide that it affects almost all linguistic subsystems. Instead, this paper aims to focus on how the Chinese language facilitates Chinese learners' English lexical acquisition. Some suggestions on how to make use of the positive aspects is provided at the end of the paper for practical purpose.

A Study on Negative Language Transfer in the English Instructions of Electronic Appliance

Transfer occurs as long as second language learning goes on. In the C —E translation of instructions of goods,transfer occurs as well. It is necessary to give a through study into those negative transfers in the instructions to improve the quality of translation. This paper takes the English instructions of electronic appliance in the New Century Supermarket in N anchang University as the subjects. Through a qualitative and a quantitative study of the subjects, the author concludes that negative transfer can be found here and there in the English instructions-negative transfer at lexical level, syntactical level and discourse level, negative transfer at syntactical level having the highest frequency. This paper also explores the reason why the phenomena occurs.

The Influence of Tri-language Transfer on the English Learning among the Uygur Students

Language transfer(LA) is the fundamental notion in language learning. Owing to the difference in area and minorities,the language teaching is particular in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. This article aims at presenting the Tri- language Transfer among Uygur, English and Chinese and the interrelationship between them to explore the significant role LA plays.Hopefully, it will give some constructive advice and enlightenment on the development of English teaching and learning among the Uygur students.

On the Effects of Negative Transfer of Native Language to Business English Correspondence from the Analysis on the Errors Madein Clarity

This paper is an attempt to analyse the role of negative transfer in the acquisition of business English correspondence through the analysis of errors made in learners’writings.The analysis is focused on errors made violating clarity.Through the contrast between those errors and the normative samples,one of the deep-rooted reasons that prohibits learners to make the correspondences be clarified are discovered,which is the negative transfer resulted from different thought patterns affected by the cultural diversities.

Pragmatic Transfer and Failure in High School Students' English Writing and its implications for English Teaching

Pragmatic transfer is an evitable phenomenon in foreign language learning.When the rules of the native language and the target language are the same,the transfer can be positive;otherwise,negative transfer arises.From the perspective of pragmatics,this paper classifies and makes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the pragmatic failure in students' writing and elucidates the implications for the teaching of English writing.

A Brief Analysis of Negative Transfer of Chinese on the English Writings

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.

A Study on Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in English Majors' Writings

Based on the Error Analysis theory and Contrastive Analysis theory,this thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue at the levels of substance,lexis and syntax by taking advantage of quantitative analysis method,and an attempt is made to analyze and classify writing errors in L2 writings by English majors.Anyhow,it is hoped that current research can achieve the purpose of avoiding the negative transfer of mother tongue and to improve English majors’writing capability accordingly.

Negative Transfer of Chinese on the Acquisition of English Articles

English articles can be divided into three categories: indefinite article, definite article as well as zero article, which find themselves appearing in both oral and written English at a relatively high frequency as functional words. For Chinese English learners of the beginning stage, English articles are usually taught in the first several lessons. Although English articles are seeming ly easy in terms of their semantic meanings, few Chinese learners can really arrive at the level where they can use them proficient ly and grasp their usage in their entirety. Some researchers hold that the negative transfer of Chinese can account for that problem because the Chinese language doesn't have an article system which is equivalent to that of English, while others strongly criticize this viewpoint. The paper is aimed at verifying the mother tongue interference on the acquisition of English articles by advanced Chinese English learners, especially at how the differences in generic expressions between Chinese and English give rise to those problems concerning the acquisition of English articles. Owing to the limitation of the length and depth of this paper, a hypothe sis that Chinese English learners generally consider the English indefinite article"a/an"as being equal to"一个"in their mother tongue is put forward as a premise. To prove this hypothesis, two mini tests were carried out among 47 senior English majors in two classes respectively in BLCU and the results of the tests conform to the hypothesis positively. It can be safely asserted that due to the negative transfer of Chinese on the acquisition of English articles, even advanced Chinese English learners display their cog nitive inadequacies of English generic references performed by English articles and inappropriate omission of English indefinite ar ticles.

Negative Transfer of Shandong Dialect on English Pronunciation

Transfer theory holds that the differences between the mother tongue and target language have an impact on target lan-guage acquisition,pronunciation especially.Based on the theory,this paper aims to discuss the negative transfer of Shandong dia-lect on English pronunciation and to put forward suggestions for improvement.