A Study On "Zai……X" Format In Teaching Chinese As A Second Language

"Zai" is of high frequency use as a word in Chinese. In teaching Chinese as asecond language, foreign students are extremely fond of using "Zai","Zai" error rateis also relatively high.This article, based on the latest theory of "Construction–Chunk" and the conceptof circumposition that inherited the basis of the results of previous studies, startingfrom the Chinese noumenon, summarized "Zai......X" format and its syntacticdistribution characteristics, and analyzed the semantic representation. At the sametime, it explored the looming problem of "Zai......X" format through analyzing thecomprehensive statistical corpus, and then summed up the "Zai......X" format of typeof the Errors and indicated the error cause. Finally it put forward the correspondingteaching strategies in order to serve the Chinese International Education better. Thispaper is constructed of four chapters, and the specific research contents are as follows:Chapter Ⅰ: Introduction. This article introduced the topics of this study cause andthe meaning topics. It also exposed the ontology study and teaching study about the"Zai......X" format respectively based on the results of previous studies. And then itpointed out the shortage of the related study in this article and defined the scope of it.Finally it explained the theoretical background and the corpus source.Chapter Ⅱ: Noumenon research of "Zai......X" format. This chapter classified the"Zai......X" format, it also summarized the characteristics of syntactic distribution andsemantic expression of the five categories of "Zai......X" format according to the threekinds of syntactic position which are the beginning, the middle and the end.According to the characteristics of the frame construction, it discussed and studied thepresence and absence problem of the key elements in "Zai......X" format, including theemergency and ellipsis of "Zai" and "X", the simultaneously ellipsis of "Zai" and "X".Chapter Ⅲ: The error study of "Zai......X". It summarized the six error kinds thatincluding dislocation, missense, multipurpose, omit, misuse and mixture after statisticanalyzing all the corpus about "Zai" in the HSK dynamic corpus of the BeijingLanguage and Culture University based on the ontology study. It described the bias performance and analyzed its reasons. Meanwhile, it not only summarized the useerror and misuse error of the use of "X", but also did statistical interpretation of datafrom the sides of format elements and other elements according to the six error kinds.Chapter Ⅳ: The teaching strategies of "Zai......X" format. On the basis of theontology study and bias study, it proposed the feasible teaching strategies aiming toall the elements of "Zai......X" format which took the "Construction–Chunk" teachingtheory as the theoretical basis and combined the actual need of teaching Chinese as asecond language.Finally, it put forward the ideas and future research directions by the summaryand introspection in the epilogue part of the article.