CONTENTS
Abstract
中文摘要
List of Tables -iii
Chapter 1 Introduction-1
1.1 The purpose and significance of the study-1
1.2 The research situation abroad and home-1
1.3 The innovation of the study-3
1.4 The organization of this thesis-3
Chapter 2 Literature Review-5
2.1 Language transfer and mother tongue interference-5
2.1.1 Language transfer-5
2.1.2 Mother tongue interference-5
2.2 Contrastive Analysis-6
2.3 Error Analysis-6
2.4 Identification of errors-7
Chapter 3 Contrastive studies of English and Chinese-9
3.1 Reasons for contrastive studies of English and Chinese-9
3.2 Comparisons between English thinking mode and Chinese thinking mode-9
3.2.1 Abstraction and imagination-9
3.2.2 Analysis and synthesis-10
3.2.3 Deduction and induction-10
Chapter 4 Research Design-13
4.1 Research questions-13
4.2 subjects-13
4.3 Method and instruments-13
4.4 Data collection and results-14
4.4.1 Errors in part of speech-14
4.4.2 Errors in articles-14
4.4.3 Errors in prepositions-14
4.4.4 Errors in conjunctions-15
4.4.5 Errors in nouns-15
4.5 Results analysis-16
Chapter 5 Conclusion-19
5.1 Limitations and expectations-19
5.2 Implications and recommendations from the pedagogy perspective-19
References-21
Acknowledgements-22
