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1、Abstract:Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearning.Languagetransferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlanguagethathasbeenpreviouslyacquired.Thispaperlistsmanifestationsoflanguagetransferandputsemphasisonmakingac
2、ontrastivestudyofthedifferentcharactersbetweenChineseandEnglishwhileanalyzingthevariousmistakesinChinesestudents’EnglishwritingcausedbythenegativetransferfromChineseonthelevelsoflexis,syntaxanddiscourse.ThepurposeistominimizethenegativeinfluencefromChineseandimprovestudents’English
3、writing.Keywords:negativetransferfromChinese,Englishwriting,influence 1.Introduction Transferisapsychologicalterm,whichreferstotheinfluenceofpreviouslearningonsubsequentlearning.Transferistheinfluenceresultingfromthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenthetargetlanguageandanyotherlangu
4、agethathasbeenpreviously(andperhapsimperfectly)acquired.(Odlin,1989)Languagetransferisacommonphenomenoninthelanguagelearning.Languagetransferistheeffectofonelanguageonthelearningofanother.(LongmanDictionaryofLanguageTeaching&AppliedLinguistics,2000)Intheprocessoftheforeignlanguagel
5、earning,learnerswillunconsciouslybringthepronunciation,lexical,grammaticalstructures,andthoughtsofthemothertongueintothetargetlanguage.Asaresult,themothertonguehassomeinfluenceonthetargetlanguage.Thisphenomenoniscalledlanguagetransfer.Languagetransferincludespositivetransferandnega
6、tivetransfer.Positivetransferreferstothetransferinwhichlanguagelearners’knowledgeofthemothertongueimprovestheacquisitionofthenewknowledgeofthetargetlanguage.Negativetransfer,alsocalledinterference,isthephenomenoninwhichlanguagelearnersusethemodelsorrulesoftheirmothertongueinthetarg
7、etlanguage,resultingintheoutputoftheinformalorevenwrongexpressingformsofthetargetlanguage.IntheEnglishlanguagelearning,ChinesestudentstrytoutilizesomemothertonguefeaturesmorethanthatoftheEnglishlanguageincommunication.Englishwritingisoneoftheoutputwaysoflanguage,anditisaprocessfrom
8、deepstructurestosurfacestr
