Differences between Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis on English Writing for Chinese EFL learners

摘要

With the increasing importance of English writing,how to improve students’writing ability is a big challenge.Contrastive analysis and error analysis are two popular approaches to error correction in English writing.This paper is going to compare the differences between contrastive analysis and error analysis,in English writing for Chinese EFL learners,from perspectives,such as,English writing purpose,English writing errors and attitude towards English writing.After that,some better suggestions will be given at the end of the paper.