The Effect of Mother Tongue over Foreign Language Learning母语对外语学习的影响.doc

The Effect of Mother Tongue over Foreign Language Learning 母语对外语学习的影响 Contents Acknowledgements I Abstract II 摘要 III 1 Introduction 1 2 The Definition of Transfer and Related Theory 2 3 The Promotion of Positive Transfer over Foreign Language Learning 4 4 The Hinder of Negative Transfer over Foreign Language Learning 6 4.1 Phonetic Transfer 7 4.2 Lexical transfer 8 4.3 Grammatical Transfer 11 4.4 Pragmatic Transfers 12 5 The Strategy of Preventing Negative Transfer 15 6 Conclusion 16 References 17  Acknowledgements I would like to thank all those who have given me their generous helps, commitment and enthusiasm, which have been the major driving force to complete the paper, thank all those who provided me with feedbacks through all kinds of ways, especially to my tutor who gave me many precious suggestions. I am grateful to their help. What’s more I am deeply grateful to the authors of the materials and the books that I have chosen and selected for this paper. I intend to show every respect for intellectual property rights, and hope my pleading for the permission to use the related materials for my paper will receive kind and generous consideration. Abstract The development of the economy promotes the world to become a multi-language world. Under this situation, second language learning appears necessary. But in the process of learning，many people take their mother tongue as their basis of foreign language learning, as a result, the effect of mother tongue in foreign language leaning appears. In this paper, mother tongue transfer which mainly causes the convenience and difficulties for foreign language learners will be focused on. There are positive transfer and negative transfer which will separately promote and hinder the process of foreign language learning. The learners can make full use of positive transfer to accelerate their learning. As soon as an error is made, they can look at its nature and try to work out why it is made .errors can hold vital clues abou