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Study on the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue in College Students’ English Argumentative Writing



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LIN Hong

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2014.01.003

Ningbo Dahongying University, Ningbo, China

Language transfer is an important factor in second language acquisition, which consists of positive transfer and negative transfer. Positive transfer promotes the learning of the foreign language, while negative transfer interferes with language study. Language learners, no matter what level they are in, can hardly learn a language under the influence of native language, especially the negative influence of it. Because of it, errors seem to be an unavoidable phenomenon in the process of learning a foreign language. This paper takes non-English major students of Ningbo Dahongying University as research subjects. From the analysis of different errors in college English writing, the author can be certain of one point that the negative influence of MT (mother tongue) on word learning is reflected on multiple aspects.

negative transfer of mother tongue, error analysis, contrastive analysis, English argumentative writing