Abstract:

Based on the language transfer theory and previous research results, this paper starts with the English syntax, researching mother tongue negative transfer of English syntax on junior high school students. Using literature research method, questionnaire survey method, and experimental research methods, the study researched status and problems of English syntactic acquisition on junior high school students, and analyzed causes and influence of mother tongue negative transfer of English syntax learning on junior middle school students. It aims to explore the way to reduce mother language negative transfer to minimum, and look for ways to more effective teaching method on junior middle school students.

Key words: mother language negative transfer; Junior high school students; English syntactic learning

摘要：

本文根据语言迁移理论及前人研究成果，从英语句法方面入手，以初中生学习英语句法中的母语负迁移现象为研究课题，采用文献研究法、问卷调查法、实验等研究方法，调查某中学初中生英语句法习得的现状和问题，分析母语负迁移对初中生学习英语句法的影响和产生原因，探索将母语负迁移减小到最低限度的对策，寻找有效的初中英语句法教学的方法。

关键词：母语负迁移; 初中英语; 句法学习

1. Introduction
Nowadays, almost every child starts to learn English in school at a very early age. When they are in junior high school, they learn to speak and write long sentences in different tenses. It is thus obvious that syntax is such a key element in making sentences. However, there are certain difficulties in syntactic learning in junior high school. Many students are able to use the tenses skillfully, but there are still some mistakes in their expression and yet. That’s syntactic errors.
In native language environment, translation of English long sentences usually accord with English syntax, but some of them doesn’t. In junior high school students’ translating, there are a large part of errors caused by native language transfer. Negative syntax transfer may lead to the phenomenon, for example, problems of passive sentences, default of logical connectives, default of guide words, and problems of position adverbial, etc.