Exploring Negative Transfer in Chinese Students’ English Writing at Lexical Level
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.208How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- negative transfer; English writing; Chinese students; at lexical level
- Abstract
This study is aimed at an investigation of Chinese college students’ writing, with focus on the negative transfer of native language at lexical level. The data is collected from essays written by two groups of non-English majors with different English proficiency levels. A classification as well as its exemplification is offered concerning all these lexical transfer errors. The cause of formation is also analyzed for the corresponding class of language transfer. For this reason, EFL teachers may find the results of this study useful, and they are advised to take countermeasures to help improve students’ writing competence.
- Copyright
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jiezhen Niu AU - Han Ji PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Exploring Negative Transfer in Chinese Students’ English Writing at Lexical Level BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 905 EP - 909 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.208 DO - 10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.208 ID - Niu2018/07 ER -