1.1探讨背景
本文主要探讨运用语言学，英语毕业论文，英语论文题目，第二语言习得和语言教学，针对语言转移、语言学家和外语教师国外已经至少有一个世纪的探讨。因为外语学习总是在母语的背景下进行的。A teacher who has made a comparisonbetween foreign language and native language of students shall know better what the reallearning problems students encounter. It is widely believed that differences betweennative language and foreign language create learning difficulties, while the similaritiesfacilitate learning.With the development of modem society and the globalization of economy, Chinahas been further carrying out its open policy as a member of WTO. English, as a globallanguage, not only becomes one of the essential necessities for employees in all walks offields, but also relates closely to the social, economic and cultural development.Therefore, Chinese people have long realized that English is the preferred language fortheir promotion in the future and their children's further study, especially in order toexpand greatly international trade and tourism industry in ethnic minority areas. However,it is a fact universally acknowledged that ethnic minority students are poorer in English,when compared with most Han students, due to the underdeveloped social economy,language environment and cultural background. This is an obstacle that challenges bothteachers and students in ethnic minority places.
The improvement of ethnic minoritystudents' English learning in remote areas should be paid more attention by governmentand educational authorities.Tujia nationality is an ethnic group of industrious and courageous with a longhistory and splendid unique culture. They have been devoted to accepting the mainstreamof cultures of Han, and they have an intense desire for learning English well. However,Tujia students normally begin to learn English from either primary school or middleschool, and they use their mother tongue in their daily communication before they beginto learn English, so it is inevitable to avoid some cross-linguistic influence from Tujialanguage. The author herself is from Tujia ethnic group, and she herself is greatlyinfluenced by language transfer of Tujia language, especially in the aspect ofpronunciation. She takes special observation to what real learning problems Tujiastudents encounter and what linguistic errors they make and which kind of difficulties they confront frequently during their English learning.
1.2The significance of the study探讨目标
Most of the studies in China have focused on contrastive analysis of Chinesemandarin and English. Few attempts, however, either at home or abroad, has been doneto take ethnic minority students as subjects to study influence of ethnic minoritylanguages on English learning. Even the description of Tujia language in English is rareup till now and influence of Tujia language in English learning is merely mentionedinstead of carefully analyzed. My experimental work is executed to explore and analyzedifferences and similarities between Tujia and English in the aspects of phonology,lexicon, syntax and discourse so as to clarify interference in Tujia students' Englishlearning. To a certain extent, this study extends the scope of LI transfer and enrichesresearch findings of LI transfer. More over, it is hoped that the present research mayprovide some feasible pedagogical instructions.
The useful information of this papercould inspire English teachers to carry out innovative education in Changyang, withwhich they can b
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