The Contrastive Analysis In Secondary School English Grammar In Use

The thesis first introduces briefly the teaching of English grammar. It sets out from the theories of modern linguistics and psychology to expound "contrastive analysis", then points out that contrastive analysis is an effective teaching method from the practice of English Teaching in the middle school in China. Based on the experience in the field, the author preliminarily summarizes four common mistakes which middle school students often make: omission, disorder, misplacement and misaddition. Besides, sufficient sound examples are given on how to implement contrastive analysis to eliminate the native language's interference and improve the efficiency of grammar teachingThe paper is divided into three parts.The first part clarifies some definitions and categories of grammar, pictures roughly the history of grammar teaching and present situation and discusses the significance of grammar teaching.The second part briefly expounds the psychological foundation of contrastive analysis-transfer. It shows that contrastive analysis can eliminate interference caused by the native language's negative transfer in English grammar learning. Furthermore, this part explains the concept of contrastive analysis, and describes the development, modes of it and the importance of doing research on it.The third part, which serves as the essential chapter, sets focus on implementation of English-Chinese contrastive analysis in grammar teaching in middle school. The first section briefly introduces the content and principles of contrastive analysis applied in the middle school. The second section compares the respective grammar features of English and Chinese. Due to the negative transfer of their mother tongue, Chinese middle-school students committed many grammatical mistakes. The third section analyses these mistakes and classifies them into four categories: omission, disorder, misplacement and misaddition. Abundant living examples are studied here. The fourth section centers on strategies of implementation in class teaching activities. The fifth section tells that contrastive analysis is of great significance to grammar teaching and learning in middle school and also has its limitation.Conclusion: when learning a foreign language, students tend to make many mistakes because of the negative transfer of their mother tongue. Contrastive analysis is proved to be one of the most effective teaching approaches. By contrastive analysis students can overcome most difficulties in English grammar learning.