A Brief Analysis of the Influences of Mother Tongue Negative Transfer in Senior School Students’English Writing
摘 要:英语写作是衡量学生英语综合运用能力及英语教学水平的重要标准。由于高中学生处于英语学习的初级阶段,而且是在汉语的语言环境中学习英语,缺少足够的语言输入,母语必然会对学生的写作产生干扰。由于负迁移的干扰,学生无法运用所学的英语知识写出符合英语本族语习惯的地道的英语文章。本文从词汇、语法和语篇三个方面分析了母语负迁移对英语写作的影响,通过有效的写作教学方法帮助学生逐渐克服母语干扰,逐步形成正确的英语写作习惯,从而提高书面表达的能力。
关键词:高中生;母语负迁移;英语写作
Abstract:English writing is an important standard to measure the students English comprehensive application ability and English teaching level. Owing to the high school students learn English of the initial stage of learning English in Chinese language environment. Language will bring about student’s writing interference because of lacking enough language input. Students can not use what they have learned to write in English native language habits of the tunnel's English articles, due to the interference of negative transfer. The paper analyze the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue from three aspects of vocabulary, grammar and text in English writing. It can through effective writing teaching methods help students overcome the mother tongue interference gradually, and form correct English writing habits gradually, so as to improve the ability of written expression.
Key words: senior school students; negative transfer of mother tongue; English writing
Contents
摘 要 I
Abstract II
I. Introduction 1
II. The Characteristics of English Writing in Senior School 2
2.1 Popular Model of the Chinese high School Students 2
2.2 The Influence of Mother Tongue in English Writing 3
2.3 The Relationship between English Writing and Native Language 3
2.4 English Writing Teaching Mode for Snior School Students 4
2.4.1 Product Approach 5
2.4.2 Process Approach 5
III. The Analysis of Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue Phenomenon in Senior School Students' English Writing 7
3.1 Negative Transfer of Vocabulary 7
3.2 Syntactic Aspects of the Negative Transfer 8
3.2.1 Run-on Sentence 8
3.2.2 Chinglish 9
3.3 The Negative Transfer of Discourse 9
IV. English Writing Teaching Suggestions 10
4.1 The Right Attitude towards l1 Transfer Error 10
4.2 Cultivate Students' Awareness of the Difference between the Two Languages 11
4.3 Increase Language Input through Extensive Reading 12
4.4 To Strengthen the Teaching of Vocabulary 12
4.5 Pay Attention to the Discourse Teaching 13
4.6 Strengthen the Writing Practice 13
V. Conclusion 14
Bibliography 16
Acknowledgments 17
A Brief of Analysis of the Influences of Mother Tongue Negative Transfer in Senior School Students’ English Writing
I. Introduction
To improve students’ writing skills is very important to English Writing Teaching in senior school. For high school students, English writing is the comprehensive ability of students study, is a way to test the full range of the English level of the students. High school students have mastered their mother tongue, so in writing are affected by negative transfer of mother tongue inevitably. It is difficult to improve the writing level, if not corrected timely. The researchers found that the two widely discussed forms of migration what the mother tongue and second language structure similar or identical, tend to produce positive transfer, and positive transfer to promote the second language learning. When the mother tongue and second language structure dissimilarity or not at the same time, it will produce negative transfer, namely the second language learning will be the mother tongue interference. Negative transfer of mother tongue in the fifties and sixties of the 20th century is the concept of comparison and analysis of the theory. Negative transfer of mother tongue refers to the grammar of the language structure or language rules will lead to some mistakes in the process of second language acquisition or inappropriate forms. In view of this, the author thinks that it is necessary to study the influence of mother tongue negative transfer on English writing of senior high school students, analyzing the reasons and types of errors to improve teaching strategies and teaching methods to improve students English writing. This has been recognized by scholars at home and abroad. Most of the native language of the study these subjects are not Chinese, so the results may bias on the emergence of Chinese students. The study objects of the negative transfer of mother tongue in China most is for Senior Students. Because of Senior school students in the primary of the stage of learning English, English vocabulary, grammar and sentence etc. The degree of mastering the language environment is poor, accepted basically limited to the English classroom. Learning English to more rely on their native language, writing them in a native mode of thinking, so senior school students English written expression in the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue is more attracted the attention of researchers and teachers of foreign language teaching. This paper takes the senior school students as the research object, through the text analysis, research on negative transfer of mother tongue on senior high school students English writing, and put forward according to the recommendations of the teaching, to improve the writing level of senior high school students. There are two typical writing teaching methods. Product approach method is a kind of traditional teaching method, focus on the final result of writing. Process writing teaching is a challenge to the traditional teaching method, offered to turn their attention from evaluate students' work to help students to pay more attention to the writing process .In the process of students' writing, namely in pre-writing, activities, thinking, research, discussion, ideas and modify etc to help them.