浅谈中国学生英语学习中母语迁移.docVIP

浅谈中国学生英语学习中母语迁移摘 要：语言迁移是二语习得中的普遍现象。汉语和英语分属不同的语系，有着截然不同的语言特性。对许多中国学生而言，在进行英语学习之前，我们的母语汉语已经达到了一个较高的水平。因此，中国学生在英语学习中不可避免地受到母语迁移的影响。本文主要研究中国学生英语学习中的迁移现象及相应策略。文章首先介绍了迁移、正、负迁移的相关理论，然后探讨了中国学生英语学习中的迁移现象以及帮助学生减弱其影响的策略 关键词：母语迁移 英语学习 策略 1.0 Introduction In second language acquisition, language transfer is a universal phenomenon. Both researchers and learners have to confront with this problem. As Chinese students who learn English as a foreign language, we have been using our mother language for a long time, so that we have been very familiar with the rules of it. When we learn English, we transfer these rules into this process unconsciously, and then the transfer appears. Therefore, it is clear that our first language Chinese influence our second language? performance greatly. On the basis of language transfer, the focus of this article is to investigate the negative transfer phenomena in our Chinese students? English learning and on strategies of how to minimize the influences of negative transfer on students? English learning. 2.0 Theories on Language Transfer It is well-known that language transfer holds an important position in second language acquisition. It has been being a key problem of second language acquisition and language research from nearly one hundred years ago. Therefore, there are lots of theories about it from different perspectives. 2.1 The Definition of Language Transfer The notion of “language transfer” was closely related to the behaviorist theories at its birth. Fires (1945) and Lado (1945) introduced the term into the field of second language learning. They assumed that learners tended to transfer the characteristics of their native languages and cultures into the foreign languages and cultures that they were learning. Faerch and Kasper (1987) define transfer as the process by which L2 learners? active knowledge in developing or using their interlanguage (linguistic system between L1 and L2) and points out that the process ma