| Descriptive Chinese Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| English Abstract | 第7-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| Thesis topic | 第12-13页 |
| Significance and Objectives of the Study | 第13页 |
| The layout of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER 1: Culture, language, and language transfer | 第15-31页 |
| ·Language and culture | 第15-24页 |
| ·Features of language | 第15-17页 |
| ·Features of culture | 第17-20页 |
| ·The relationship between language and culture | 第20-24页 |
| ·Regional dialects and subcultures | 第24-26页 |
| ·Regional dialects | 第24-25页 |
| ·Subcultures | 第25-26页 |
| ·Language transfer | 第26-31页 |
| ·A brief historical review of the study on language transfer | 第26-27页 |
| ·Manifestations of language transfer | 第27-31页 |
| CHAPTER 2: Hakka culture and its cultural psychology | 第31-40页 |
| ·Factors contributing to the formation of Hakka culture | 第31-34页 |
| ·Historical factor | 第31-32页 |
| ·Geographical factor | 第32-33页 |
| ·Social and human factor | 第33-34页 |
| ·Features of the Hakka culture | 第34-37页 |
| ·Ancient-Central-China feature | 第34-35页 |
| ·Migratory feature | 第35页 |
| ·Mountainy feature | 第35-36页 |
| ·Multiplex feature | 第36-37页 |
| ·Characteristics of Hakka cultural psychology | 第37-40页 |
| CHAPTER 3: Influences of Hakka linguistic and cultural transfer on English learning | 第40-57页 |
| ·Phonemic transfer of Hakka dialect in English pronunciation | 第40-46页 |
| ·Grammatical and syntactic transfer of Hakka dialect in English output | 第46-49页 |
| ·Pragmatic transfer in English learning and communication | 第49-54页 |
| ·Hakka cultural psychology influences on English learning | 第54-57页 |
| CHAPTER 4: Implications for English teaching and learning | 第57-65页 |
| ·Implications for English teaching | 第57-61页 |
| ·Arousing awareness of culture and linguistic transfer | 第57-58页 |
| ·Making full use of positive influences and averting negative influences | 第58页 |
| ·Being familiar with the regional dialect and culture of the students | 第58-59页 |
| ·Being concerned for students’Hakka cultural psychology | 第59-60页 |
| ·Enhancing foreign culture teaching | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications for English learning | 第61-65页 |
| ·Raising sensibility to cross-lingual and cross-cultural differences | 第61-62页 |
| ·Developing target culture empathy | 第62页 |
| ·Engaging in cultural experience | 第62-63页 |
| ·Surmounting negative factors in Hakka cultural psychology | 第63-65页 |
| Conclusion | 第65-67页 |
| References | 第67-70页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第70-71页 |
| Appendix A: Publications during the Program | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix B: Informative Chinese Abstract | 第72-75页 |
