Abstract

 

For foreign language learners, mother tongue interference has become one of the main roadblocks that hinder them from mastering the target language skillfully. Hence, the dissertation aims to find the interlingual errors in students’ writings and to arouse the attention of English teachers. First, the dissertation collects errors made by junior middle school students in their English writings. Then, it analyzes why Chinese students tend to produce such errors. Finally, the dissertation gives three corresponding teaching strategies to help improve the quality of English writing teaching. 

 

Key words : junior middle school students, English writing, teaching strategies, negative transfer 

 

Contents

中文摘要

Abstract

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Purpose and significance of the research 1

1.2 Structure of the research 2

2. Literature Review 2

3. Research Design 7

3.1 Questions of the research 7

3.2 Subjects of the research 8

3.3 Methods of the research 8

3.3.1 Textual analysis 8

3.3.2 The questionnaire 8

3.3.3 Interview 8

3.4 Instruments of the research 9

3.5 Procedures of the research 9

4. Data Analysis 11

4.1 Analysis of the questionnaire 11

4.2 Analysis of the sample writing 13

4.2.1 Interlingual errors on lexical level 14

4.2.2 Interlingual errors on syntactic level 17

4.2.3 Punctuation 19

4.2.4 Capitalization 19

5. Results and Discussions 20

6. Conclusion 21

6.1 Implications 22

6.2 Limitations 22

References 23