Analysis Of Commonly Used Linear Classifiers Of Foreign Students And Thoughts About Teaching Methods Of TSCL

Abundant classifiers are an important character of Chinese different from other languages. Lack of classifiers of most languages leads to difficulties in learning Chinese classifiers of foreign students. There are many different kinds of Chinese classifiers. And also the scale of Chinese classifiers is huge. The linear classifiers are often used among all the classifiers. There are 17 classifiers-xian, si, tiao, zhi, dai, gan, gen and zhu, duan, gu, gan, dao, lv, zhu, zhi, liu, jing totally, according to the conclusion of Jingmin Shao. The use of similar linear classifiers is difficult to distinguish for foreign students, because of the blurred boundaries of these semantic features and usage of linear classifiers match.In recent years, the researchers on the study of linear classifiers are further, but most of the researches are still stay on the match of linear classifiers through distinguishing the semantic characteristics and commonly usages of the linear classifiers. This method ignores the actual situations of foreign students’ communications in their daily life. Most of the researchers did not pay attention to the useful frequency of linear classifiers in students’ practical communications, and the distributions of linear classifiers in<HSK Word-list> and foreign students’textbooks which directly influence learning efficiency and effectiveness of students.We choose linear classifiers as the breakthrough point of the study in this paper. First of all, the paper concludes using frequency of 17 linear classifiers by using HSK dynamic composition corpus. At the same time, we surveys the studying and mastering and usages of 17 linear classifiers of foreign students by a questionnaire. Then, we analyzes the current HSK Word-list and the commonly used Chinese textbooks of international students, summarizing the distributions of them to find the matching degree of two materials. Finally, we offers some suggestions for the textbooks compilation and methods of teaching linear classifiers in teaching Chinese as foreign language by combining the results of corpus investigations and questionnaire.This article is divided into six chapters. Chapter 1 is introductions to explain the reasons of selecting this topic and the purpose and significance, research methods and the corpus source and the innovation of the research. Chapter 2 as the research overview part mainly explains the classifiers classification problems and predecessors’ researches. Chapter 3 is mainly analysis of use frequency of the linear classifiers in HSK dynamic composition corpus. The questionnaire is to analyze students’ linear classifiers words acquisition order. Chapter 4 is based on analyzing linear classifiers’ distributions of teaching Chinese to international students in HSK Word-list and foreign students’ textbooks. Chapter 5 puts some suggestions to the formulations of HSK Word-list and foreign students’ Chinese textbooks, and the teaching methods of Chinese teachers. Chapter 6 is the conclusion of the article; it also puts some suggestions to further research on linear classifiers.