Abstract: The Influence of native transfer in Second Language Acquisition is always an important area for linguists’ study, which is also the focus of the debate. In this paper, the author will analyze the impact on children's Second Language Acquisition in pronunciation, vocabulary, pragmatics through the study of the negative transfer of mother tongue in the process of Second Language Acquisition. At last, to help foreign language teachers to improve the quality of foreign language teaching, some proposals will be put forward to overcome the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue on children in the process of Second Language Acquisition.

Key words: children; second language acquisition; mother tongue; native transfer. 

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Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction..1

2. The Theory of Language Transfer1

2.1 Definition of Language Transfer....1

2.2 Types of Language Transfer...2 

3. The Understanding towards the Phenomenon of L1 Negative Transfer..3

4. Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on Study3

4.1 Effects of Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue on Second Language Acquisition in Children..3

4.1.1 Negative Transfer on Pronunciation4

4.1.2 Negative Transfer on Vocabulary4

4.1.3 Negative Transfer on Pragmatics.5

5. Strategies to Reduce the Negative Transfer of Mother Tongue....6

5.1 Strategies to Overcome Chinese Pronunciation.6

5.2 Principle of Learning Vocabulary...7

5.3 Enhancing the Teaching of Culture7

5.4 Having a Proper Attitude to the Transfer of Mother Tongue..8

6. Conclusion8

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