Analysis on Negative Transfer of Chinese to Vocational English Practical Writing
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.167How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Negative Transfer; Writing Errors; Vocational English Writing
- Abstract
In China, vocational education has made great progress in recent years. English teaching is considered as an important part for vocational education system. How to improve students’ ability of English practical writing has brought a heat discussion. The paper focuses on what the negative transfer of the first language brings to English writing in the primary level of second language acquisition. Negative transfer refers to the effect of the first language that forms obstructions on the second language learning, which will cause students to make errors when they do the English outputting. Primary writing errors such as comma splice, the mixing use of personal pronoun, incorrect verb tense and non-predicate error can be well explained by the negative transfer of the first language. These errors can function as a feedback for vocational students’ English learning. English writing samples are collected from non-English major students in a Chinese polytechnic college. Negative transfer of Chinese is applied to explain why students will make these errors. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis, it shows that the main writing errors in the primary phase originate from the negative transfer of the first language and therefore advocates that writing errors should be paid enough attention in vocational writing teaching.
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TY - CONF AU - Wei Chen PY - 2022 DA - 2022/02/01 TI - Analysis on Negative Transfer of Chinese to Vocational English Practical Writing BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 920 EP - 924 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.167 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.167 ID - Chen2022 ER -