In terms of product,learners with higher English proficiency exhibit a decrease in the total number of transfer errors,yet the decrease varies with different categories.

Corpora Research of Language Transfer in CEM

Based on the theories of Interlanguage(IL),Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis(CIA),Language Transfer(LT) and Error Analysis(EA),the results indicate that:First,the basic types of structural expansions used in There-be construction are acquired by learners at the very beginning.

It is generally believed that first language transfer is more likely to occur at the early stage of second language acquisition.

With the study of language transfer undergoing about half of the century,the research on the relationship between native language transfer and second language acquisition / foreign language learning has been paid great attention to.

The role of native language transfer in second language acquisition has been an issue of debate for a long time.

The native language transfer occupies an important position in the second language acquisition.

As the core problem in SLA,mother tongue transfer attracts the attention of different theory school.

This paper emphasizes the inevitability of mother tongue transfer and deals with the ways of handling mother tongue in foreign language teaching so as to promote its positive transfer.

Researches abroad have focused on the proportions of errors caused by mother tongue transfer in a corpus since 1970s.