On the Effects of Negative Transfer of Native Language to Business English Correspondence from the Analysis on the Errors Madein Clarity

摘要

This paper is an attempt to analyse the role of negative transfer in the acquisition of business English correspondence through the analysis of errors made in learners’writings.The analysis is focused on errors made violating clarity.Through the contrast between those errors and the normative samples,one of the deep-rooted reasons that prohibits learners to make the correspondences be clarified are discovered,which is the negative transfer resulted from different thought patterns affected by the cultural diversities.