Review of English Pronoun Acquisition by Chinese Learners from the Perspective of Transfer

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English pronoun acquisition; L1 Transfer; personal pronoun; possessive pronoun; reflexive

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the negative effects of language transfer on the acquisition of English pronouns by native Chinese learners of English (hereinafter called Chinese learners). Though there have been many language transfer researches, few are set in the Chinese learners’ perspective. We find that there are more pronoun acquisition biases for Chinese learners in English learning, but less research on pronoun acquisition in the direction of language transfer. We therefore take the learning problems of personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns as examples. We find that language transfer has a degree of negative transfer for Chinese learners of English as a second foreign language. For language transfer of pronouns, we find that there are concrete negative transfer phenomena such as lack of grammatical concepts in L1 leading to inability to transfer, deviations in grammatical concepts between L1 and L2 leading to negative transfer. Finally, we provide strategies that can be applied to teaching and learning, centred on the findings of the study.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ziting Zhang
AU  - Yue Zhang
AU  - Han Fang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - Review of English Pronoun Acquisition by Chinese Learners from the Perspective of Transfer
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 542
EP  - 546
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.103
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.103
ID  - Zhang2022
ER  -