An Error Analysis Of The Chinese Complement By Thai Elementary Learners

At present, a rapid development of the Chinese teaching and learning has emerged in Thailand, and more and more Thai people devote themselves to this upsurge. Facing such a huge group of Chinese learners with their own features, it is necessary and significant for us to do some relevant theoretical and practical researches.The complement is one of the unique grammatical constituents in modern Chinese language, and the Thai learners of Chinese have many problems in learning the complement. However, the previous researches paid little attention to this field, focusing on the directional complement but neglecting other types of complement, with intermediate-advanced learners as the main subjects. As the researches were not so comprehensive, this thesis attempts to focus on the Thai learners at the elementary stage and extend the research scope to the entire complement system. That is, the current paper makes a wider and deeper study though it may include certain fields explored by previous researchers.This paper first makes a contrastive analysis of the Chinese complement and the Thai equivalents, in the hope of making a preliminary prediction of the errors that the Thai elementary learners may make in learning the Chinese complement. Secondly, through classifying the complement errors in the corpus and analyzing the statistics as well as the initial error prediction, the paper sums up the difficulties of the Thai elementary learners during their Chinese learning. Thirdly, the difficult areas mentioned in this paper are verified by a questionnaire among Thai students with the same Chinese level in the Overseas Education College of Xiamen University, and they are proved universal. Finally, this paper attempts to discover the causes of the errors arising from these difficult areas and puts forward some suggestions and countermeasures.