AN INVESTIGATION INTO TOPIC-COMMENT STRUCTURES IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE AND SOME NEGATIVE TRANSFERS TO ENGLISH BY FIRST-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG
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topic
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first-year English majors
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The concept of Topic-Comment sentence and the topic-comment structures have been a concern of linguistists in Vietnam and in the world. According to Cao Xuan Hao (1991), Vietnamese people often express ideas in the way that they start to mention a topic and then say something about that topic or within the range of that topic. However, the structure has been proved to be a hindrance to the first-year English majors at the University of Foreign Languages Studies, the University of Danang when transfered into the English language. The paper investigates some commonly-used topic-comment structures in Vietnamese and their negative transfers to English by the first-year English majors at the University of Foreign Languages Studies, the University of Danang. On the basis of data analysis from a survey, the paper provides some suggestions to better English learners’ translation of the structures.
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Dec 31, 2014
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Luu Quy Khuong, Tran Thi Thuy Lien. “AN INVESTIGATION INTO TOPIC-COMMENT STRUCTURES IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE AND SOME NEGATIVE TRANSFERS TO ENGLISH BY FIRST-YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF DANANG”. The University of Danang - Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 12, no. 85.1, Dec. 2014, pp. 119-22, https://jst-ud.vn/jst-ud/article/view/1122.
