高中生英语写作词汇运用母语负迁移.doc

  Contents

Abstract. 3

Introduction 4

I. The Influence of Mother Tongue and its Negative Transfer. 4

A. Research Literature on Language Transfer of Mother Tongue. 4

B. The Influence of Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on Chinese Students. 5

II. Analysing the Errors in Vocabulary Application in High School

Students' Writing 6

A. Misunderstanding Lexical Forms. 6

B. Misusing Part-of-Speech. 7

1. Confusing Nouns and Verbs. 7

2. Mistakening the Adjectives, Preposition Phrases, Adverbiasls as Verbs. 8

3. Confusing Adjectives and Adverbs. 8

C. Misusing the Lexical Collections. 9

1. The Errors of Lexical Application. 9

(1). Applications of Verbs to Nouns. 9

(2). Applications of Adjectives to Nouns. 10

2. The Errors of the Conventional Collection. 11

D. Misusing the Social Meaning of Lexical and the Emotive Meaning. 11

E. Misunderstanding the Context. 12

III. Resolutions to Reduce the Negative Influence. 13

A. Changing the Way of Vocabulary Teaching. 13

1. Explaining New Words in English. 13

2. Focusing on the Cultural Connotation. 14

3. Giving More Examples to Establish the Context. 14

B. Changing the Way of Vocabulary Learning. 14


1. Inputting More Authentic English Language. 14

2. Using Communicative Strategies to practise. 15

3. Checking in the Dictionary in Time. 15

Conclusion 15

Notes 17

Bibliography 18

Acknowledgement 19


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


Abstract: English writing is always a big problem for Chinese high school students. According to the selective examination of the writing samples of Chinese high school students, misusing vocabulary plays a big part because of the negative influence of mother tongue. This article analyses influence of negative transfer of mother tongue on the vocabulary application of high school's writing and finds out some suggestion to solve this problem.

Key Words: Negative transfer of Mother tongue; High school Students' Writing; Vocabulary application


摘要：写作一直以来是高中生的一个大问题。通过实习期间对几次抽查的文章可以看出词汇的错误与误用在写作错误中占了很大比例。究其原因主要是母语负迁移的影响。因此，本文从这个角度出发，就母语负迁移对高中生写作词汇运用上的影响进行探讨并给出一定的建议。

关键词：母语负迁移; 高中作文; 词汇运用