Abstract:  In high school，English writing is the reflection of students’ comprehensive language skill. This article reviewed the theory of mother tongue transfer, contrastive analysis and error analysis as the theoretical foundations. Then the author uses the samples of 120 compositions of Grade 1 of Qin Huai Middle School of Nanjing, and summarizes the grammar mistakes of high school students in English writing. The author puts forward the corresponding countermeasures according to analysis. In this article, the research aims to help teachers find effective writing teaching methods and reduce the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue.

 Key words: High school English writing; negative transfer of mother tongue; English grammar; countermeasures

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction1

2. Literature Review2

2.1 Language Transfer

2.2 Contrastive Analysis

2.3 Error Analysis

2.4 Current Study about Language Transfer of L1

3. The Research and Study ..6

3.1 The Research Objectives

3.2 The Research Methods

3.3 Results and Analysis

4. Influence of Mother Language Negative Transfer on High School English

Writing 8

4.1 Morphology

4.2 Sentence Structure

5. Countermeasures10

  5.1 Raising awareness of difference of grammar between the English and Chinese

  5.2 Enlarging target language grammar input

  5.3 Strengthening writing practice

  5.4 Developing the sense of English thinking

 6. Conclusion..12

Bibliography .13 

Acknowledgments .14