Abstract

Writing is a language skill and it is very important in language learning and teaching. It is necessary for teachers to develop students’ writing competence. However, quite a lot of our Chinese students in senior high school are poor in English writing and they always make errors in their English expression. It is worth analyzing and studying the reasons for the errors in senior high school students’ English compositions. Many scholars, who research this issue, hold the view that Chinese has the negative transfer on students’ English writing. On the basis of questionnaires and English compositions samples, this thesis analyzes and explores the errors from the aspects of lexical errors, syntactic errors and Chinglish and so on. It also provides some suggestions for senior high school English teachers in their English writing teaching. 

Keywords: negative transfer; Chinese; English writing; senior high school students

摘要

写作是一种语言技能，而且在语言学习和教学中非常重要。教师培养学生的写作技能很有必要。但是，相当多的中国高中生英语写作很差，他们经常在英语表达中犯错误。所以，对学生英语作文中错误的原因进行分析和研究很有价值。许多研究这个问题的学者认为汉语对学生英语写作会产生负迁移的影响。本文依据问卷调查以及学生英语作文的样本，从词汇错误、句法错误和中式英语等方面对错误进行了分析和探究。本文也为高中英语教师的英语写作教学提供了一些建议。

关键词: 负迁移；汉语；英语写作；高中生