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The Negative Transfer of Chinese Syntax in English Writing: Evidence from Chinese ESL Learners’ Written Materials

Authors
Yuchen Pan1, Shuiqingqing Hu2, *, Chenxi Wang3
1College of International Studies, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
2Department of Chinese language and literature, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
3Department of Applied Chinese, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 190706317@stu.yzu.edu.cn
Corresponding Author
Shuiqingqing Hu
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_313How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Syntactic negative transfer; English writing; Markedness Theory
Abstract

Numerous studies have shown that language transfer is central to second language acquisition, and syntactic transfer is an important part of language transfer. At present, the research on syntactic transfer mainly focuses on theoretical errors or marked language analysis. However, it is not practical, as second language learners will still face various syntactic negative transfer phenomena. These phenomena would have an impact on their future writing level and correspondent solutions are in urgent need. Therefore, this paper analyzed the following syntactic categories: hypotaxis vs. parataxis, the subject-predicate structure vs. the topic-remark structure, Noun and preposition promotion vs. Verb promotion, and passive vs. active. Then, we added the phenomenon of Chinese students’ avoidance of typical sentence patterns as the fifth category and explains the negative transfer phenomenon of the five categories with markedness theory. Based on these findings, Chinese English learners are suggested to put forward appropriate methods to avoid the obstacles of negative transfer of Chinese syntax to second language learning.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
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978-2-494069-89-3
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_313How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Author(s)
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