mmar and language knowledge, but they still have great number of stubborn errors in English writing. These errors are obviously influenced by their mother tongue. The errors which caused by negative transfer of mother tongue has became one of the main obstacles in the process of students’ English writing. How to use the appropriate theory and method to understand and analyze the error, not only for foreign language teaching has significance, but also for how to improve students’ application ability has important function. In previous studies, the study objects always non-English majors. However, negative transfer phenomenon also exists in the learning process of English majors. This paper use comparative analysis, error analysis and language transfer as the foundation, to study the real impact of negative transfer of mother tongue in English writing and teaching. So as to make students correctly understand negative transfer of mother tongue, giving full play to the function of positive transfer of mother tongue and seek the countermeasures to overcome the negative transfer. Finally, helping students gradually reduce the negative transfer and improve their English writing skills and English learning ability.
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Chapter 2 Literature review
2.1 The theories on Language transfer
Language transfer is the important issue in the field of second language acquisition for a long time. Over half a century, the study of language transfer has experienced a tortuous and complicated development stage. Overall, from the rise of language transfer to today, it has gone through two stages of historical development: Comparative Analysis Hypothesis model and Inter-language Hypothesis. In the 1970s, markedness theory combines language difference with mark relationship. This way explains how the language transfer phenomenon overcomes the insufficient of the language transfer in the view of behaviorist. By the late 1990s, Chomsky’s parameter theory and the transfer problem in Inter-language characterization have become hot issues. In recent years, our foreign language community is also concerned about the issues of language transfer, and all kinds of publications have appeared many articles about it. In the field of domestic English teaching, there are more and more researches on mother tongue transfer , and the perspective are different. Throughout the stages of development, the theory of language transfer at abroad and home appears as below.
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2.2 Related Theories
Comparative analysis hypothesis, error analysis theory and inter-language theory have the relationship of inheritance and development from the view of theoretical develo
