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WANG Zhao-xi, JIN Ming-hao
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2025.03.010
College of Foreign Languages, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin Province, China
Referring to the questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview, this paper explores the negative transfer of mother tongue in junior high school English writing and analyzes the existing problems. The results show that the negative transfer of mother tongue has a significant impact on junior high school students’ English writing. The main errors are found at four levels: morphological level, lexical level, syntactic level and textual level. In order to deal with the errors caused by the negative transfer of mother tongue in students’ English writing, it is suggested that teachers create an English language environment for students as far as possible and help students form English thinking, use contrastive analysis teaching strategies, making a comparison between English and Chinese expressions and cultural differences and pay attention to the training of students’ basic knowledge of English to help students improve their English writing ability.
mother tongue, negative transfer, English writing
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, March 2025, Vol. 15, No. 3, 189-197
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