A Study on Negative Transfer of Non-English Majors’ Writing Under the Error-Analysis Theory

DOI

10.2991/meici-18.2018.244How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Negative transfer; College English writing; Strategy; Avoid

Abstract

In second language acquisition, one’s mother tongue will influence both in a positive and negative way. While Chinese and English belong to different language families and have different cultural background, negative transfer appears in vocabulary, sentence construction, coherence, and culture. In this paper, the author studies negative transfer in college English writing. 150 sophomores from Xidian University are chosen, and interview and writing test are combined to accomplish the study. After statistical analysis of the students’ negative transfer in the writing test, the author explores the appearance of them in college English writing, and proposes feasible strategies to avoid negative transfer.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaohua Mi
AU  - Wanqing Chen
AU  - Yan Zhang
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - A Study on Negative Transfer of Non-English Majors’ Writing Under the Error-Analysis Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 8th International Conference on Management, Education and Information (MEICI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1209
EP  - 1212
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/meici-18.2018.244
DO  - 10.2991/meici-18.2018.244
ID  - Mi2018/12
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