The Role of Chinese Transfer in English Language Acquisition 汉语迁移在英语学习中的作用.doc

The Role of Chinese Transfer in EnglishLanguage Acquisition 汉语迁移在英语学习中的作用Abstract The native language plays an inseparable role in second language acquisition and people can not afford to ignore it. In the course of English learning, students’ knowledge of their mother tongue invariably influences the acquisition of L2 learning. During the English teaching and learning, when students are communicating with English, they are always influenced by their mother tongue in one way or another, or they may try to express English with the help of the knowledge of Chinese, then the L1 transfer occurs. Positive transfer is good for the target language acquisition, whereas the negative transfer is a blocking stone for the acquisition. Key words: L1 transfer; positive transfer; negative transfer 内 容 摘 要 母语在二语习得中起着重要的不能忽略的作用。在英语教学活动中，学生在用英语进行交际时，总在某个或某些方面受到母语的影响，或试图借助于母语的知识来表达思想，这时就会产生语言迁移现象。正迁移有利于目标语学习，负迁移阻碍学习。 关键词：母语迁移；正迁移；负迁移 The Role of Chinese Transfer in EnglishLanguage Acquisition 1 Introduction When Chinese students study English, they are inevitably influenced by their mother tongue, and gradually transfer the rules of Chinese language into English, and gradually they would produce ‘Chinglish ’. This is known as language transfer. This paper tries to find out the similarities and differences between Chinese and English through contrastive analysis, so as to find out the influences of Chinese into English. These influences are either positive or negative. They are separately known as positive transfer and negative transfer. Positive transfer is good for the acquisition of English, it can facilitate the learning of English, whereas negative transfer is a blocking stone for English language acquisition, it may postpone the process of English language acquisition. Based on these concepts, this paper tries to analyze the L1 transfer phenomenon in Chinese students’ English learning, and probes into the reasons for those transfers. They can take various measures to deal