The Negative Influence from Chinese in English Writing

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1、TheNegativeInfluencefromChineseinEnglishWritingAbstract:Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearning.Languagetransferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlanguagethathasbeenpreviouslyacquired.Thispaperlistsmanifestationsoflanguagetra

2、nsferandputsemphasisonmakingacontrastivestudyofthedifferentcharactersbetweenChineseandEnglishwhileanalyzingthevariousmistakesinChinesestudents’EnglishwritingcausedbythenegativetransferfromChineseonthelevelsoflexis,syntaxanddiscourse.ThepurposeistominimizethenegativeinfluencefromChineseandimprovestu

3、dents’Englishwriting.Keywords:negativetransferfromChinese,Englishwriting,influence 1.Introduction Transferisapsychologicalterm,whichreferstotheinfluenceofpreviouslearningonsubsequentlearning.Transferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlanguaget

4、hathasbeenpreviously(andperhapsimperfectly)acquired.(Odlin,1989)Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearning.Languagetransferistheeffectofonelanguageonthelearningofanother.(LongmanDictionaryofLanguageTeaching&AppliedLinguistics,2000)Intheprocessoftheforeignlanguagelearning,learnerswillu

5、nconsciouslybringthepronunciation,lexical,grammaticalstructures,andthoughtsofthemothertongueintothetargetlanguage.Asaresult,themothertonguehassomeinfluenceonthetargetlanguage.Thisphenomenoniscalledlanguagetransfer.Languagetransferincludespositivetransferandnegativetransfer.Positivetransferreferstot

6、hetransferinwhichlanguagelearners’knowledgeofthemothertongueimprovestheacquisitionofthenewknowledgeofthetargetlanguage.Negativetransfer,alsocalledinterference,isthephenomenoninwhichlanguagelearnersusethemodelsorrulesoftheirmothertongueinthetargetlanguage,resultingintheoutputoftheinformalorevenwrong

7、expressingformsofthetargetlanguage.IntheEnglishlanguagelearning,ChinesestudentstrytoutilizesomemothertonguefeaturesmorethanthatoftheEnglishlanguageincommunication.Englishwritingisoneoftheoutputwaysoflanguag