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Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Background of the study
Language transfer has been an important phenomenon in second languageacquisition, applied linguistics and language teaching. In the past twenty years, however,its importance in the second language learning has been on the trend of increasing. In the1950s, it was often considered the most important factor to consider in a series of secondlanguage teaching as well as the second language learning approaches. In the 60s of thelast century, its importance was also the evidence for the learner's errors as no evidenceof language transfer but 'the process of building innovation'. Some researchers almostcompletely repudiated their interpretation of the passion of language transfer. A morereasonable opinion has emerged in recent years, in which the role of language transfer isrecognized, and in which transfer is considered to be not fully understood with the host'sother factors. (Odlin, 1989: 24-46.)However, with the developing of world economy, the language contact between theregion and the nation is becoming more and more frequent. More countries and regionshave begun to recognize the language of minorities. All these changes have laid a goodfoundation for the study of third language acquisition (TLA). Nowadays more and morepeople are pursuing the research of language transfer in third language acquisition. Thisthesis studies negative syntactic transfer of Uyghur language (L1) in English (L3)acquisition of senior high school bilingual students in Xinjiang.
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1.2 Significance of the study
Although little research on language transfer has been done for Uyghur Collegestudents, research on the negative syntactic transfer of Uygur native language of seniorbilingual students in China has not carried out systematically yet, this paper will enrichthe research findings relating to Third Language Acquisition and Language Transfer inminorities in China. Hopefully this study will attract more researchers' attention to thecomplexity of Uyghur students’ English learning.Uyghur is the largest population in Xinjiang and covers about over 50 ％ (2016estimate) of the whole population of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.English is one of the most common languages in the world today, and it is one of theofficial languages of international organizations. Internationally, the most advancedscientific research results are also published in English. English is the most effective toolfor us to understand and master the world. With the formation of the global economicintegration, as well as the in-depth development of the western region, Xinjiang hasaccelerated the pace of opening to the outside world; the demand of foreign-relatedtranslation is increasing.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review

2.1 Relevant Concepts
In the terminology of second language research, the term transfer is as problematicas any. Researchers tried to give definitions to transfer from different views. The originalterm 'transfer', returns to behaviorism and it considers that the learning habits of themother tongue effect the habits of learning foreign languages. 'Transfer' is firstly used inthe field of psychology, denotes to the process of extending the knowledge and skillssubconsciously, uncontrolled and automatically to the new knowledge or skills. When itis applied to linguistics is called 'language transfer'. For 'language transfer', diffe本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。