GRE写作Issue模拟题:The Importance of Science and Art

作者词汇基础扎实，拼写也很棒；作者句法知识扎实，但文中从句数量稍显不足；语言不流畅；连词使用偏少。

Firstly, due to the plural form of insufficient use took the largest part in five errors, and the main reason was mother tongue interference. The most important problem was to delete the influence of negative transfer of native language. As junior students, they did not only increase the knowledge of target language, but also often did language output such as writing. Only through language output would these students know their basic English grammar was good or not. As for teachers, they should provide students with more opportunities to to do language output, like exercises, writing in class. During the process of learning a foreign language, it’s necessary to know the culture of the country. Culture elements played an important role in learning a second language. According to the research, we could know that mother tongue inference was a main cause to these errors. Why these errors occurred most frequently? Just because the negative influence of native language had a great effect on second language learning. Teachers should guide them properly. Chinese learners often considered problems from their cultural aspect, then, the blank was produced. There were many ways to learn about culture, such as, watching English TV series or movies. What learners should pay attention to was the difference between English and Chinese. Ellis (1994) pointed that culture had a subtle effect on second language acquisition. Samovar and Porter (1994) defined thinking pattern as “the mental process of reasoning and problem-solving in a community”. In other words, culture could produce the blank but also eliminate it.What they did in class could help junior students get over negative influence of native language. Secondly, junior learners should make a distinction between words’ form and meaning. Some words may be in single form, but stood for plural meaning, like “people, fish”. Some abstract words had no plural forms like“ happiness”. In a word, forms and meanings were not always consistent in English grammar. Therefore, scholars like Dai Weidong (2002) stated that English junior learners were supposed to remember vocabulary exactly and knew the use of words clearly. Learners should take notice of some words which were different in forms and meanings. According to the analysis, the main cause of error C:countable nouns without determiner was translating Chinese words literally. Therefore, junior learners should pay more attention to the differences between Chinese and English in sentence structure. What’s more, learners were supposed to consider problems in English thought with their bests. Last but not least, according to the present research, the environment factor became another influential element. Teachers or textbooks would stood some responsibilities for wrong use of nouns. In reaction to the phenomenon, the most effective way was to improve teachers’ linguistic proficiency and the quality of textbooks. If textbooks were not suitable in explaining a language phenomenon, then teachers could teach students clearly by their professional knowledge. What’s more, teachers should communicate with students frequently so as to know whether these students understood their explanation. If students committed errors like countable nouns without “s”, teachers were supposed to correct this little error. In class, teachers were suggested to warn students to care about such a detailed knowledge point deliberately or intentionally.