Abstract:In recent years, researchers at home and abroad have gained great attention to the studies of the relationship between the mother tongue and second language writing. Accordingly, various studies on the phenomenon of the L1 transfer have been evoked both in the foreign countries and in China. Nevertheless, there are too many aspects of the L1 transfer to expound, and most of studies focused their attentions mainly on translation. Therefore, this thesis focuses on understanding the differences of pro-drop property in syntactic structure of Chinese and English, that is to say, the different features between Chinese as a pro-drop language and English as a non-pro-drop language are compared, so that English language learners can reduce the negative transfer part of Chinese thinking on English writing, and to improve the quality of English writing work.

　　　In this study, we first collect 100 writing assignments from Chinese senior English majors as the research data. Then we analyze the chosen subjects and come to the results. Thus, after analyzing the data, we come to the conclusion that Chinese pro-drop property has little or even no negative transfer to senior English majors’ English writing. Moreover, we hope that this study will provide some valuable suggestions for English learners in second language writing by decreasing influences that by mother tongue interference element.  

Key words: senior English majors; the L1 negative transfer; pro-drop property; second language writing

摘要:近年来，母语与二语写作相互关系的研究受到了国内外学者的重视，相对地，这在国内外也引发了一系列关于母语迁移现象方面的研究。然而，母语迁移现象的相关研究涉及面广泛，并且相关研究主要把重点放在英汉翻译方面上。因此，本研究从二语写作的角度出发，主要探讨主语脱落特征在英汉句法结构上的差异，使英语学习者更好地了解英汉的一些不同语法现象（比如汉语属于主语可脱落型语言，而英语属于主语非脱落型语言），从而在二语写作过程中更少地受到母语思维的干扰，提高二语写作的作品水平。

　　　在本次研究中，我们首先通收集100份来自英语专业大三大四学生的作文作为研究数据，然后我们对所选取的实验材料进行了分析并得出研究结果。我们希望本研究能为英语学习者提供一些有价值的建议，将就汉语主语脱落特征对中国学生英语写作是否出现负迁移现象进行了具体分析，从而得出汉语主语脱落特征对英语专业高年级学生的英语写作几乎没有负迁移这一结论。

关键词：英语专业高年级学生；母语负迁移；主语脱落特征；二语写作