Study on L1 Transfer in English Writing of Chinese College Students

Qiu-juan ZHU

Abstract


Language transfer has long been a controversial topic in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and language teaching for more than 100 years. The paper concentrates on several aspects that have an especially important bearing on tle study of L1 transfer in English writing of Chinese college students: causes , differences between English and Chinese discourse analysis and characteristics of English and Chinese syntactical structure.
Key words: L1 transfer, English writing, Chinese students, discourse analysis
Résumé: 100 ans se sont passés depuis que le transfert linguistique est devenu un thème d’étude important dans la linguistique appliquée, l’acquisition de la deuxième langue et l’enseignement-apprentissage des langues. Commençant par les différences du texte et celles de la syntaxe entre l’anglais et le chinois, l’article présent analyse essentiellement les causes et les caractéristiques du phénomène de transfert de la langue maternelle dans la rédaction anglaise des étudiants chinois.
Mots-clés: transfert de la langue maternelle, rédaction en anglais, étudiants chinois, analyse du texte
摘要:語言遷移成為應用語言學、第二語言習得和語言教學領域中的重要研究課題至今已有一百年歷史。本文從英漢語篇的差異及英漢句法結構的不同入手著重分析了中國大學生英語寫作中的母語遷移現象的原因及特點。
關鍵詞:母語遷移;英語寫作;中國學生;語篇分析

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020070302.005

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