An Analysis On Chinese Prepositions Errors Made By Korean Students

The lack of conformational changes in strict sense determines the significance of Chinese functional words. Functional words have no real meaning, only representing some abstract grammatical roles, therefore, it is difficult for the oversea learners to master them. In addition to that, the flexible and multi-functional usage of them makes it a difficult point for Chinese-learning. Preposition is a key element in Chinese. During the process of Chinese-teaching to Korean students, we found that they make many errors in using Chinese prepositions. The present research in this field is relatively scarce, which in turn stimulates us to do some further studies on previous foundation.This essay makes a classification on the errors made by Korean learners into different catalogs and analyzed them by means of error-analysis under the guidance of basic principles on theories of interlanguage.We differentiated the collected huge amount of language corpus under the guidance of the basic principles of error-analysis on Chinese grammar, discarded those accidental mistakes meanwhile sorted out the examples of general errors and made analysis on them. We illustrated examples of general errors from the main side. Then we illustrated a few prepositions which are often used. Starting from the point of foreigners-oriented Chinese teaching, we elaborated on those errors that Chinese native speakers master subconsciously while Korean learners mistake frequently, and provided some correct examples.On the base of error-analysis, we discussed the causes of these errors, pointed out the influence of mother tongue, the interference of the limited mastered target language and the mistakes of teaching.We proposed our suggestions on Chinese teaching as a second language on the basis of the above-mentioned analysis. We hope this analysis can improve the teaching effects and raise the learning efficiency of Korean learners as well as other learners from foreign countries.