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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  • Luu Quy Khuong, Tran Thi Thuy Lien

Từ khóa:

topic
comment
structures
negative transfer
first-year English majors

Tóm tắt

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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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”. Tạp Chí Khoa học Và Công nghệ - Đại học Đà Nẵng, vol 12, số p.h 85.1, Tháng Chạp 2014, tr 119-22, https://jst-ud.vn/jst-ud/article/view/1122.

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