The Negative Transfer of Chinese upon English Vowel Learning——An Empirical Study of the Transfer Theory

摘要

Rod Ellis claims that no theory of L2 acquisition is complete without an account of L1 transfer,which arouses much interest of phonetic linguists to probe into the Transfer Theory.In this paper,the negative transfer of Chinese upon English vowel learning is dwelled upon.The author carries out the study by examining the recording of some Chinese natives,and with the help of the computer-based Praat analysis,the author comes to the conclusion that to a large extent,Chinese has exerted a negative influence upon English vowel learning in terms of English monophthongs and diphthongs,which may contribute to English teaching as L2 in China.