Negative Transfer of Chinese Sentence Patterns on Students’ English Writing

Abstract

The necessity of improving the English writing ability of the Chinese students has been realized gradually and writing is always difficult for Chinese students as well as for teachers of English. Among the many difficulties, errors from the influence of Chinese sentence patterns are the obscure one which students cannot overcome easily. This paper, which aims at exploring the differences between Chinese and English sentence patterns, along with the causes of negative transfer of Chinese sentence patterns on students' English writing, is desired to be of some help to both language teachers and language learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]