Negative transfer in Chinese college students＇ English writing  

作　　者：DONG Juan HAN Ge-ling 

机构地区：[1]School of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2009年第8期9-16,共8页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：Second language learners make errors in both comprehension and production in their Inter-language, and learners＇ errors have all along been one of the main focuses on language pedagogy. Based on the theoretical study of Inter-language, transfer, Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis as well as the correlations among them, this paper concentrates on some production errors caused by negative transfer. Some typical inter-lingual errors made by Chinese-speaking English learners are categorized and analyzed from the syntactic perspective and lexical perspective. Hopefully by such an analysis of language transfer, the characteristics of Chinese-speaking English learners＇ Inter-language will be revealed, and it might be helpful for English teaching and enhancing learners＇ English proficiency.

关 键 词：inter-lingual errors negative transfer Chinese-speaking English learners 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]