论母语迁移在英语词汇习得中的作用
毕业论文关键词：母语迁移；词汇习得；正负迁移
Abstract The theory of mother tongue transfer refers to that the habit of the first language will directly influence the acquisition of the second language, and play its positive and negative functions. As a Chinese learner, English vocabulary learning is inevitably influenced by the Chinese ways of pronunciation, cognitive styles and thought patterns. Based on the language transfer theory, this paper will analyze the influences of Chinese on English vocabulary learning from the positive and negative transfer respectively, and reveal the positive and negative effects of Chinese in the process of English vocabulary acquisition. What this paper intends to convey is to make Chinese learners have a better understanding of English and Chinese languages in terms of similarities and differences at the lexical level, and improve the efficiency of English vocabulary learning.
Key words: mother tongue transfer; vocabulary acquisition; positive and negative transfer
On the Function of Mother Tongue Transfer in English Vocabulary Acquisition
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Theory of Mother Tongue Transfer 2
2.1 The Definition of Language Transfer 2
2.2 The Classification of Language Transfer 3
2.2.1 Positive Transfer 4
2.2.2 Negative Transfer 5
2.3 Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis 5
Ⅲ. The Positive Transfer of Mother Tongue and Its Influences on English Vocabulary Acquisition 7
3.1 Positive Transfer of Phonetic 7
3.2 Positive Transfer of Word Formation 8
Ⅳ. The Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue and Its Influences on English Vocabulary Acquisition 9
4.1 Negative Transfer of the Comprehension of the Meaning of English Words 9
4.1.1 Connotative Meaning 9
4.1.2 Social Meaning 10
4.1.3 Affective Meaning 11
4.1.4 Collocative Meaning 12
4.2 Negative Transfer of Culture 12
Ⅴ. Conclusion 14
Bibliography 16
Acknowledgments 17
I. Introduction
The term “transfer” is first defined by behavioral psychologists to refer to the process of automatic, uncontrolled and subconscious use of past learned behavior in the attempt to produce new responses. According to them, the main impediment to learning was interference from the prior knowledge. Psychologists use the term to refer to the influences imposed by a learner’s possessed linguistic knowledge and skills upon the subsequent learning of new linguistic knowledge or skills.
The English linguist D. A. Wilkins said that, “Without grammar, very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed” (111). Vocabulary as the foundation of language learning plays an important role in second language acquisition. And the improvement of language competence depends on the acquired vocabulary. Thus, the learning of vocabulary, which occupies a very basis and important position in language learning, can be viewed as the core of English learning.
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