英语写作是对学习者综合能力的测试。许多学习者对此感到很困难。在大学英语四级考试中,考生的作文成绩并不理想。有观点指出母语负迁移是导致这一现象的重要因素。为验证这一说法,笔者对本校大一非英语专业学生的作文进行抽样,从句法的角度进行错误分析,以期对英语写作教学有所启示。 English writing is a test of learners’ comprehensive ability. Many learners find it difficult. In the CET4, candidates’ academic performance is not satisfactory. Some people point out that the negative transfer of mother tongue is an important factor leading to this phenomenon. In order to verify this statement, the author sampled the composition of non-English major freshman students in the school, and analyzed the errors from the syntactic point of view, in the hope of enlightening English writing teaching.