语言迁移是二语习得研究中的重要领域之一。许多学者认为,中国大学生英语写作中出现的错误大多由母语迁移造成。在此从迁移的定义出发,讨论了迁移产生的原因和可能制约的因素,特别是结合学生写作中的范例对中国大学生英语写作中的句法负迁移现象进行了分析。 Language transfer is one of the important fields in second language acquisition research. Many scholars believe that the mistakes most often made by Chinese college students in their English writing are mainly caused by their mother tongue migration. Based on the definition of migration, this paper discusses the causes and possible constraints of migration, especially the negative syntactic transfer in Chinese college students’ English writing.