| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two A Literary Review | 第13-20页 |
| ·A Review on Language Transfer Studies | 第13-18页 |
| ·Cognitive View and Transfer Theory | 第13-14页 |
| ·Behaviourist View and Transfer Theory | 第14-18页 |
| ·Language Transfer in Relation to the Interlanguage Theory | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Three Promoting Positive Transfer in English Teaching | 第20-31页 |
| ·Definition of Positive Transfer | 第20-21页 |
| ·A Theoretical Proof for Positive Transfer | 第21-24页 |
| ·Chomsky’s UG | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cognitive Schema Theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·An Investigating Proof for Positive Transfer | 第24-25页 |
| ·Approaches to Promoting Positive Transfer | 第25-30页 |
| ·Guiding Students to Prepare for Learning | 第25-26页 |
| ·Finding out Similarities between English and Chinese | 第26-30页 |
| ·A Summary | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter Four Avoiding Negative Transfer in English Teaching | 第31-50页 |
| ·Definition of Negative Transfer | 第31-33页 |
| ·Two Different Writing Systems | 第31-32页 |
| ·Two Different Language Families | 第32-33页 |
| ·A Theoretical Proof for Negative Transfer | 第33-36页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis | 第33-34页 |
| ·Markedness Theory | 第34-36页 |
| ·An Investigation Proof for Negative Transfer | 第36-41页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第36页 |
| ·Subjects | 第36页 |
| ·Instrument | 第36-39页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第39-41页 |
| ·Approaches to Avoiding Negative Transfer | 第41-48页 |
| ·Avoiding Negative Transfer in Vocabulary | 第41-43页 |
| ·Avoiding Negative Transfer in Grammar | 第43-45页 |
| ·Avoiding Negative Transfer in Idiomatic Usage | 第45-46页 |
| ·Avoiding Negative Transfer in Teaching Text | 第46-48页 |
| ·A Summary | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five The Enlightment to Foreign Language Teaching | 第50-56页 |
| ·Appropriate Use of L1 in L2 Teaching | 第50-53页 |
| ·Pedagogical Controversy | 第50-52页 |
| ·A Summary | 第52-53页 |
| ·Significance of Application of Linguistic Universals | 第53-54页 |
| ·Positive Effect of Comparison between the L1 and the L2 | 第54-55页 |
| ·Necessity and Usefulness of Cultural Knowledge in L2 Teaching and Learning | 第55-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-60页 |
| Appendix | 第60-61页 |
