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DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGETHE NEGATIVE TRANSFER OF MOTHER TONGUE ON SECOND LANGUAGE AQUISITION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF SOFTWAREBYWang LijuanCLASS: 24GRADE: 2012ADERVISER: Kang HuiMay of 2008ABSTRACTThe negative transfer of mother tongue refers to that the characteristics of the mother tongue is transferred to second language learning ,which is a common phenomenon . This paper analyses the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue. The purposes: 1. Help students to have a deeper understanding of negative transfer of mother tongue. 2. Present some proposals to foreign language teaching.Key words: Second Language Acquisition, Mother Tongue, Negative Transfer, Teaching摘要母语负迁移对第二语言习得影响及教学启示王丽娟母语的负迁移是指母语的特征被转到第二语言学习过程的现象，这种现象非常普遍。

本文分析的母语负迁移的现象，目的是：1帮助人们更深的认识母语负迁移现象；2提出一些外语教学建议。

关键词：二语习得；母语；负迁移；教学CONTENT ABSTRACT (ii)摘要 (iii)CONTENTS (iv)I.Introduction (1)II.The definition of transfer (2)III.The influence of negative transfer of mother tongue (2)A. The negative transfer of phonetics (2)B. The negative transfer of vocabulary (3)C. The negative transfer of syntax (4)IV.Pedagogical implications (6)A. Comparative teaching (6)B. Using mother tongue appropriately (7)C. Enhancing the knowledge of cultural background (7)V. Conclusion (9)VI. Work Cited (10)The Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on Second Language Acquisition andPedagogical ImplicationI. IntroductionChinese students often complain that it is difficult to learn English well under the influence of naive language. The paper learns from the results achieved from the field of research on negative transfer of mother tongue by our predecessors, tries to make a comparison between English and Chinese languages in the three areas of phonetics ,vocabulary and syntax, introduces that the phenomenon of negative transfer and whose influence on current English teaching in China briefly.II. The definition of transferThe concept of transfer first came from the behavioral psychology. In psychology, transfer means a mental process that the knowledge people have acquired plays a role in a new learning environment. Language transfer is the impact of one language on other language learning. It is a phenomenon that the learners use the rules of naive language to handle the information of target language consciously or unconsciously, which is due to the learners are not familiar with the rules of target language such as the syntax rule in the learning process of a second language or a foreign language. Migration can be mainly divided into two types: one is positive transfer and the other is negative transfer. Positive transfer refers to that the similarities of mother tongue and target language have positive effect on second language learning, which plays an important role for learners to master and use foreign language. Negative transfer is also named mother tongue interference. The mainly causes of negative transfer are some different forms and rules between naive language and target language, however, the learners think they are the same, which is the barrier for learners to master anduse a foreign language.III. The influence of negative transfer of mother tongueA.The negative transfer of phoneticsPhonetics is not only the means of expression, but also the first step to learn a language for the learners. But learners always use the phonetic rules of the mother tongue to replace those of target language, which is the most direct manifestation of interlanguage speech. So we can find out the negative transfer of mother tongue by comparing thedifferences between Chinese pronunciation and English pronunciation.First the transfer is obvious to see because of the differences between English consonants and Chinese initials. In English, there are many of the voices that can‟t be found in Chinese, which leads to the difficulties for Chinese learners to learn it well.For example: There are a set of dental consonants [θ] and [ð] in English. But there is no appropriate sound in Chinese, it is difficult for Chinese learners to read. Even when the learners have mastered the rules of pronunciation, they also make mistakes by using the two similar consonants [s] and [d] to replace [θ] and [ð] unconsciously. So the word of “thank” is often read into “sank” and the word of “those” is read into “dose” by Chinese learners. This kind of transfer causes a lot of problems in listening comprehension.English and Chinese are two different voice systems, so the means of exchanging ideas is also different in the aspect of pronunciation. The means of interchanging ideas for Chinese is the tone. Each syllable in Chinese has its tone to differentiate literal meaning and word meaning. There are four tones in mandarin Chinese. They are YinPing, YangPing, rising tone and falling tone. They are the changes of syllable. The ideographic means of English are intonation and accent. There are six changes in English intonation. They are falling tone, rising tone, fall- rise tone, rise-fall tone, pasteurization tone and drop-plus tone. These changes of intonation can express different meaning and mood.Ex:You may …not go. 你不可以去。