A Study on the Role of Language Transfer Theory in Junior High School English Grammar Teaching

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Author: Xinru Jiang, Wei Huangfu

Keywords: language transfer theory; junior high school students; English grammar teaching

Abstract: English and Chinese, as two languages, have some similarities and many differences. Students will be influenced by Chinese unescapably when learning English grammar. These influences caused by Chinese, of which have a positive effect, namely, positive transfer, promoting students' learning initiative and effectiveness. And on the contrary, a negative influence, namely, the negative transfer, hindering students' learning initiative and effectiveness. It is found that if positive transfer is promoted and negative transfer is reduced, Chinese will play a more positive role in junior high students' English grammar learning and improve their initiative and effectiveness in English grammar learning. Based on this, this research puts forward corresponding measures, including applying language transfer to English grammar teaching, enhancing initiative of English grammar learning and applying contrastive analysis and error analysis to English grammar teaching.

Article Info: Received: 19 Jul 2025, Received in revised form: 12 Aug 2025, Accepted: 15 Aug 2025, Available online: 20 Aug 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijtle.4.4.4

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