Study On The Mother Tongue Negative Transfer In The Acquisition Of Chinese Aspect Marker Of Korean Students

With a growing number of South Korean students in China, the study oninterlanguage of South Korean students has been increased year by year, amongwhich the aspect marker is the key and difficult research topic for teaching and study.The errors of aspect marker penetrate the whole learning process, and occurcontinually and repeatedly, which are mainly caused by the negative transfer ofaspect marker in Korean. Thus the purpose of this study is to find out the source ofKorean negative transfer so as to lessen the influence for the Korean students on theacquisition of aspect mark in Chinese.Through analysis of the sentences influenced by the negative transfer in thecorpus, the results turn out that distributions of errors caused by negative transfer ofKorean are unbalanced, among which the perspective aspect “le” in Chinese takesthe highest rank, the continuous aspect “zhe” takes the second rank, the startingaspect “qilai” and experience aspect “guo” are relatively less, and the extensiveaspect “xialai or xiaqu” takes the lowest rank. The number of errors of mark aspectfor Korean students is large and the range of errors is also wide. Furthermore, theerrors have become fossilized. Language transfer is related to the marked terms andpsychological distance. In Korean, suffix belongs to the unmarked term, while inChinese, suffix belongs to marked term, thus the negative transfer during the processof Chinese acquisition will occur. In the aspect of psychological distance, Korean ismarked; the concept of time in Korean should be expressed by both aspect markerand time words. But, in Chinese, there is only aspect marker without time marker. Sothe concept of time should be indicated by words and other sentence constitutes.During Chinese acquisition, the Korean students are likely to be confused on therespect, and the error sentences occur frequently.