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copyright paper51.com paper51.com Withthe economic globalization and the science and technology internationalization,English as one of the most important information carriers, has become the mostextensive language. More and more people have recognized its importance. In China,the vast majority of people learn English as a foreign language. Chinesestudents are influenced by their mother tongue when they begin to learn English.The knowledge of the original Chinese language is bound to impact the newlanguage system. Chinese and English have something in common, which canpromote the understanding of the English language, and help English languagelearners increase the interest in learning English. For the new Englishlearners, the proper use of Chinese in English class will help students studywell. The paper begins with the analysis of the presentsituation of English teaching in Chinaand focus on the application of Chinese in English class in Xinjie Middle School.By analyzing the questionnaires and interviews from the teachers and studentsof this school, the researcher gets the idea that the role which Chinese playsin elementary English teaching is evident. 内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com Key words: Chinese; elementary Englishteaching; positive effect copyright paper51.com http://www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com 摘 要
copyright paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com 随着经济全球化和科技国际化的潮流,英语作为最重要的信息载体之一,已成为人类使用的最广泛的语言,其重要性已为越来越多的人所认识。在中国,大多数人把英语作为他们的外语。许多学生在开始学英语的时候总会受到母语(汉语)的影响。英语和汉语之间有共同之处,汉语可以促进学习者对英语的理解和帮助学习者提高学习英语的兴趣。特别是对初学英语者,适当的运用汉语可以帮助他们更好的学习英语。本文从中国英语教育的现状出发,侧重于对新街中学英语课堂中汉语的使用情况的调查,通过系列的问卷和采访得出:汉语在初级英语教学中的积极作用是非常明显的。 内容来自www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com关键词: 初级英语教学; 积极作用 paper51.com
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copyright paper51.com http://www.paper51.com3. Research Design and Methods. 6 paper51.com paper51.com 3.1Population and Subjects …………………………………………………………….6
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copyright paper51.com http://www.paper51.com 1.Introduction
copyright paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 1.1 Background of the Research 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.comWiththe development of the world economy and cultural exchanges, to master aforeign language is an essential skill for the Chinese students. English is oneof the languages which is spoken by a lot of people and has been widely used.English is listed as a compulsory subject in China; much attention has been paidto it. Can Chinese be used in English class? There are two different points ofview for the role of Chinese in English teaching. Somepeople think that teachers should use English all the time. English should beused as the main classroom language. Speaking English all the time in Englishclass will help the students study English well.But for other people, they believe that the proper use of Chinese inEnglish class is necessary. As English is a new language for the students,without the help of Chinese, they cannot understand the teacher well, and theywill lose heart in learning English. In fact, Chinese has a lot of positiveimpacts on English teaching, especially for beginners. Therefore, the researcherwill try to discuss the positive impacts of the Chinese in elementary Englisheducation. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com1.2 Significance of theResearch copyright paper51.com copyright paper51.comAccording to the “restructuring continuum”, the leaner is seen as gradually replacing features of themother tongue as he acquires features of the target language.”(Rod Elli, 2007) Sothe role of Chinese in English teaching is very important. However, a lot of teachers think that in English class they shoulduse English all the time so that the students can study English well. They donot recognize that most of the studentslearn English as a foreign language and their English is very poor. When the students begin tolearn English, they have never been in touched with English before they go toschool. If the teacher teaches in Englishin class all the time, the students will lose confidence in learning English.But if the teacher uses Chinese proper in English class, it will help themunderstand the texts and the teacher well. The appropriate use of the mother tongue in theforeign language teaching is necessary. They have mastered their mother tongue andaccumulated a great deal of experiences in the use of mother tongue. Foreignlanguage teaching should make full use of knowledge and experience of themother tongue. Chinesehas a lot of positive effects in English teaching. Mostteachers seldom realize the significance of Chinese in Englishteaching. Consequently,they cannot use Chinese help their teaching. This paper willresearch the positive impacts of Chinese in elementary English teaching. 内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com 1.3 Scope of theResearch
copyright paper51.com copyright paper51.com The study focuses on the status quo of Englishteaching in Xinjie Middle School from Dayao County. Three classes, respectively chosen fromGrade One to Grade Three are involved to answer the questionnaire and tenEnglish teachers and ten students from this school are interviewed. copyright paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 1.4 Objective of theResearch
http://www.paper51.com paper51.com The objective of the research is to search for the positive impacts ofusing Chinese in elementary English teaching. Hopefully, it is will help the elementarylearners learn English well.
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http://www.paper51.com paper51.com ⑴ What is the students’ attitude to use Chinese in Englishclass?
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paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com2.1 Positive transferand negative transfer
paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com All second language learners experience the processof acquiring a second language with their mother tongue. However, the learner’sexisting linguistic knowledge influences the course of second languagedevelopment. Language transfer is the phenomenon that the learners apply theirfirst language knowledge subconsciously in learning a second language. In otherwords, language transfer is the result of similarities and differences betweenthe target language and any other language that has been acquired. Languagetransfer can be classified as positive transfer and negative transfer. Positivetransfer refers to the positive influence of cognate vocabulary or any othersimilarities between the native and target languages. Negative transfer is nomore than the term interference, in which first language interferes with secondlanguage learning where differences exist between first language and secondlanguage. http://www.paper51.com http://www.paper51.comWhile it is generallyagreed that there are positive and negative transfer in language learning, butthe majority of articles are discussed the phenomenon of negative transfer, thediscussion about positive transfer is not to much. The most famous researchesabout positive transfers are Chomsky’ Universal Grammar and Greenberg’Linguistic Universals. They agree that in the beginning of the second language acquisition,the positive transfer is very obvious.
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内容来自www.paper51.com http://www.paper51.com Alarge number of studies show that native culture causes positive transfer whenone studies a foreign language. In other words, a deep cultural ground in themother tongue will help and promote the learner study a foreign language well. copyright paper51.com paper51.com copyright paper51.com From Stern’s description, the researcher can get an idea of that thenew English learners can build a target language system with the help of thefirst language. http://www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com The students copyright paper51.com In order to find the similaritiesand differences of the native and foreign languages, the mother tongue shouldbe used for class teaching organization.
内容来自www.paper51.com paper51.comThe learners of a second languagestart out with their language, which we call source language. They are on theirway to learn a target language. Beginners are closer to their sourcelanguage. (Ling Zhenghua, 2006)
paper51.com http://www.paper51.com Because the beginnersare closer to their source language, the source language can be used as a meansto learn a target language. paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com From theresearches above, the researcher find that positive transfer plays an positiverole in learning a target language, the learners can make good use of it. copyright paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 2.3 The positiveimpacts of Chinese in English teaching
paper51.com paper51.com There is something in common between the two languages. By comparing twokinds of cultures we can find a variety of cultural factors affectingcommunication .Many empirical studies have shown that English learners in thecognitive process of thinking rely on their mother tongue, especially in thewriting and reading process. Languages are interlinked. English and Chinese’sgrammatical structure is very similar in some areas. Both Chinese and Englishhave same sentence elements such as subject, predicate, object, attribute,adverbial. If we have masteredthis knowledge when we learned English, it will play a positive role in Englishlearning.
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内容来自www.paper51.com paper51.com Chinesecan enhance interest in learning English. If one has deep interests in something,one will have more interest in learning it; On the contrary, it will preventpeople from learning. Generally speaking, individuals are more likely to learnthe things they like. In classroom teaching, due to the unbalanced ability andlevel among learner, only a portion of learners is able to keep up withteachers by using full English teaching. Students who are weak in listening canhardly keep up with others. Even they are avoiding learning a foreign language.Gradually, they will feel frustrated and lose confidence and interest. They willnot participate in classroom activities and begin to be tired of learningEnglish, and even to give up learningEnglish. copyright paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com
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内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com Two kinds of instruments havebeen used in this research. They are questionnaire, interviews. The questionnairesare to discover the status quo of the use of Chinese in English class in Xinjie Middle School. The interviews, which are made up ofthree items (see Appendix 2and Appendix 3), are designed to inquire 10 studentsand 10 English teachers of their views on the use of using Chinese in Englishclass. All are open-ended questions.
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http://www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com9% http://www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com 0 内容来自www.paper51.com paper51.com 4.1 Data Analysis and Findings of the Checklist 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com The table shows that many students choose“always” from item 1 to item 4 except item 2, with a percentage of 30%, 55% 58%. From the table we can see that there are a lot ofteachers in Xinjie Middle School usingChinese in English Class. Without the help of Chinese, the students cannotunderstand their teacher very well. Only 4 percent of the students canunderstand their teacher, and all of them are from Grade Three. A lot of studentstry to translate English into Chinese in English class. In other words, theytry to use Chinese to help their English learning. There is no teacher speakingEnglish all the time. All the students use Chinese to help their Englishlearning and they benefit from the use of Chinese in English class more orless. http://www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com 4.2 Data Analysis and Findings of the InterviewQuestions
内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com For the first interview question, more than8 of the 10 English teachers hold the opinion that using Chinese in Englishclass is very important. They said because most students come from countryside,and have never been in touch with English before they go to the middle school.If the teachers use English all the time in the class, the students cannotunderstand them, and they may spend a lot of time in explaining a very simplequestion, even a simple word. The use of Chinese will help the students studywell and it will save a lot of time. Chinesecan be used as a mean of explaining English especially when we meet someabstract and complex linguistic knowledge, for example, the word“ revolution”.Chinese will make the explanation easy. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.comFor the second interview question, theteachers from different Grade give different answers. The teachers from GradeOne said that they often use Chinese in the classroom. If they speak Englishall the time, the students cannot understand and may lose heart in learning English.The teachers from Grade Two agree they use English when they are giving somesimple classroom instruction like greeting. The teachers from Grade Three tryto use some easy words to explain the difficult one, but for the most difficultwords, they would like to use Chinese. Theteachers’ answers show that how many the Chinese is used in English class isdepend on how many English the students have mastered , the more the students mastered, the lessthe teacher use Chinese. But all of them agree that use Chinese in class isvery important.
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内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com Using Chinese inEnglish class is very necessary. It can help the teacher teach English better,save some class time and help the students understand their teacher well. Thestudents can also use Chinese knowledge they know to help the English study.
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paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.comIn the primary stage of English teaching, comparative analysis of Chineseand English language system is very useful. It will help us determine thedifficulty of teaching and focus on these difficulties.
内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com copyright paper51.com When students begin to learn English, they have already mastered Chinese.However, Chinese rules are not the same as that of the English. When they runinto English, they will consciously or unconsciously compare it with the Chinese.In the practice of English teaching, for the feature of that the students oftenuse Chinese rules to learn English, teachers should be conscious to comparativeanalysis of the Chinese and the English to find out the differences and similaritiesbetween them. They determine the teaching difficulties and focus by doing this.This is to get rid of the interference of Chinese, so that students can developa good habit at the basic stage of the language English learning. For example,in the answer of negative interrogative sentences, the expressions of the twolanguages are completely different. English often expresses the facts of thequestion, such as "She didn't go there last night, did she?" The answershould be "No, she didn't." which means she did not go there lastnight or "Yes, she did." means she went there. However, in Chinese, peopleoften express the positive or negative view first to the hearers, so the answerto the above sentence in the Chinese expression is "Yes ah, she did not gothere last night." Or "No, She went there last night.” By thiscomparison, the difficulties of teaching become obvious. Lado (1957) said “Theteacher who has made a comparison of the foreign language with the nativelanguage of the students will know what the real problems are.”
copyright paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com5.2 Comparative analyses of the cultural background differencesbetween Chinese and English
paper51.com http://www.paper51.comThe early comparative analysis of Chinese and English is mainly in thephonological, morphemic and syntactic levels. In the early 50's Lato pointedout that the cultural contrast is very important in English teaching. He said(1957): "To compare two kinds of languages and cultures is to discover anddescribe the difficulties they have met when they learn another language.”However, comparison of culture in English teaching has not given due attention.In fact, in English teaching the comparative analysis of Chinese and English onthe cultural background is very important, because many of the mistakes incross-cultural communication are due to a lack of awareness of culturaldifferences. For example, for the first time the English or American invitesthe guests to drink (or eat) something, if the guests answer in the negativeway, they would not be treated; while in Chinese culture, the owner will generallyrepeatedly persuade the guests, and the guests would like to refuse again andagain before they accept. If language learners are not aware of this culturalbackground differences, the mistakes in communication is inevitable. Therefore,in English teaching, enhancing the comparative analysis of the differences incultural backgrounds between Chinese and English is good for language learnersto cultivate and improves communication skills and has great significance toenable them to reduce and avoid failure.
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http://www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com In classroomteaching, when the students do not understand the explanation of the difficult wordsor concepts of teaching in English, then the proper use of Chinese are oftenmore effective and easier for students to receive. And proper use of Chinesefor some translation not only enable students to understand these terms, butalso can save a lot of classroom time for other teaching activities. copyright paper51.com copyright paper51.comhttp://www.paper51.com 6. Conclusion paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com This paper concentrates on the positiveimpacts of using Chinese in elementary English teaching.
paper51.com paper51.com The findings show thata large number of people agree the use of Chinese inEnglish class is good for the teachers and the students. For theteachers, the use of Chinese will help the teacher save a lot of class time.For the students, it will help them understand the teachers well. Using Chineseproperly in English class will help the students build confidence in learning English.It will also inspire the students’ enthusiasm to learn English and reduce theirlearning anxiety. At the same time, despite the difficulty of Englishlearning is increasing, the students can appreciate the joy of success, so thatthey will not lose interest in English. Although the teacher should create anEnglish environment for the students, they can not use Chinese all the time inEnglish class for beginners. The use of Chinese in English class should proper. copyright paper51.com http://www.paper51.com paper51.com 7 Limitations of the Study andSuggestion for the Further Research paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com As is stated above, there really exist some argumentsthat to what extent the English thinking mode differs from that of Chinese. Howdo we know the two is in conflict with each in English class? How much percentof using Chinese is proper? This isa practical and challenging issue which is worthy of further research.
内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com This paper mainly focuses on the Xinjie Middle School and covers only three classes; therefore, it had asmall scope of the researched samples. Besides, due to the limitation of thewriter’s professional knowledge and her ways of collecting, analyzing andsummarizing the data, this paper must have many shortages, which leaves a lotto be improved.
内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.com In addition, with the development ofChinese economy, English teaching methods need improving, so the research inthis aspect should be done continually. 内容来自www.paper51.com 内容来自www.paper51.comReferences paper51.com 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com Aronoff, Mark &Rees-Mllier,Janie. The Handbook of Linguistics.Beijing ForeignLanguage Teaching and Research Press, 2001.
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