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ERIC Number: EJ1080728
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jun
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-1916-4742
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A Study on the Relationship between University Students' Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency
Huang, Xiaoyu; Liang, Xueying; Dracopoulos, Effie
English Language Teaching, v4 n2 p55-65 Jun 2011
Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the positive transfer of Chinese to 26 first-year university students' English writing holistically and segmentally in the use of words, grammar, coherence, and content and organization. The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient turned out to be 0.43 at the 5% significance level, indicating a positive relationship between the Chinese writing and the English writing. The questionnaires have also confirmed the result of the correlation analysis. In particular, the positive transfer of Chinese seems to be more apparent in the content and organization of the English writing, followed by coherence and use of words. Thus, it can be concluded that the positive transfer of mother tongue can facilitate English writing.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Test of English as a Foreign Language
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