Study of Influence of Negative Transfer of L1 Thinking on Second Language Acquisition

  • Jingyi Guo Qinghai Nationalities University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18282/l-e.v9i2.1393
Keywords: L1 Thinking, Second Language Acquisition, Negative Transfer, Second Language Writing

Abstract

Language transfer is always the hot topic in the history of Linguistic researches. The influence of L1 thinking absolutely exists in the process of second language acquisition and varies with second language learners’ personal language acquisition ability. According to Piaget, junior high school students are in the transitional stage from the Concrete Operation to the Formal Operation, and some of them may belong to the later. Also, the learning years in junior high school is the initial time to study English grammar and write compositions, so this research takes junior high school students of Grade-one as research participant, and mainly focuses on the errors occur in their English compositions. Through the analysis of the reason why they made such errors, the author aims at revealing the influence of L1 thinking on Chinese students’ second language acquisition, also, the author intends to help educators to have clearer thoughts when sorting out educational plans and strategies, and enable both teachers and students to realize the importance of cultivating students’ second language thinking in junior high school.

References

[1] Rod Ellis. Second Language Acquisition [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 1997.

[2] Rod Ellis. Understanding Second Language Acquisition [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 1999.

[3] Rod Ellis. The Study of Second Language Acquisition [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. 1999.

[4] Zhou Baoguo. The Graded Teaching of English Compositions [J]. Beijing: Teacher Education Forum. 1996: (5), 42-44.

Published
2020-11-10
Issue
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020)

Authors contributing to this journal agree to publish their articles under the  Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it, under the condition that the authors are given credit, that the work is not used for commercial purposes, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear. With this license, the authors hold the copyright without restrictions and are allowed to retain publishing rights without restrictions as long as this journal is the original publisher of the articles.