Foreign Language Learning and Negative Transfer

The practice of learning a foreign language is conducted after an individual has acquired his mother tongue-Chinese. In the process of learning, interference of mother tongue knowledge exists on different levels such as lexicology, syntax and pragmatics. Language learners always try to utilize some mother tongue features rather than that of the target language in communication. So language teachers must attach great importance to the training of the students' linguistic competence in the whole teaching process.