Positive Transfer Of Native Language

The traditional concern of the impact of the first language (L1)~â‘  on the second language (L2) in second language acquisition made by second language learners are often attributed to interference, or negative transfer, from the first language, caused by the differences between the languages but forgot the common features of languages. For instance, all languages possess the similar grammatical classifications; each language has negative, interrogative and order sentences and any normal person can understand and create indefinite number of sentences. The common features of different languages make possible the positive transfer from the first language to the second language learning. Thus the current thesis is going to portray the positive transfer of native language on the second language learning, an important aspect that has long been neglected by most researchers of second language acquisition (SLA).The present thesis, based on the previous theoretical framework of language transfer and the former experimental achievements, explores the impact of Chinese on English learning. It intends to address the following issues: 1) Whether the native language should be used in second language instruction? 2) What role does transfer play in the development of the English academic language proficiency among the basic and advanced students?In order to verify the positive transfer of the native language on the second language writing, experiments will be done in this thesis. The experiments will precede with a hypothesis: native language plays a positive part in the process of second language writing. The experiments consist of four parts: composition writing,...