A Study Of The Influence Of Foreign Students' Mother Tongue On The Use Of Chinese Discourse Markers

On the basis of previous studies,I paid attention to the Discourse Markers problems in Chinese as a second language teaching,focusing on the influence of native English-speaking students on the use of Chinese Discourse Markers.This paper finds out the errors,basic types and rules of Chinese as a Discourse Marker in second language learning,and puts forward some operable suggestions for teaching Chinese as a second Language.Through the investigation and study of the conversation of five native English speakers in the TV program“Informal Talks”,three representative Discourse Markers,“I feel”,“then”and“yes”,are selected to investigate,analyze and study.The study found that native English speakers tend to transfer their mother tongue blindly when they use the Chinese Discourse Marker“I feel”,ignoring the correspondence between the English Discourse Marker“I think”and the Chinese Discourse Markers“I know”and “I think”.This leads to the excessive use of the Discourse Marker“I fee”in the dialogue.At the same time,it was found that the Chinese Discourse Marker“then”is close to the“then”in English.but pragmatics is closer to“and”,which is a great difficulty for native speakers of English and prone to errors.It is also found that the Chinese Discourse Marker“namely”expresses the function of reinforcing the tenor at the end of the sentence,and the equivalent of “That is/namely”“as for”and“then/so”is easy to form the over-generalization of language decoding,which leads to the deviation in use.Through the investigation,we find that there are three reasons for the errors of Chinese as a second language markers:first,negative transfer of mother tongue;second,over-generalization;and third,the influence of learning strategies and communication strategies.Three suggestions are put forward,one is to add Discourse Marker chapters in the teaching material,the other is to normalize the teaching of teacher Discourse Marker,and the third is to correct the errors of foreign students' Discourse Marker in time.In order to promote the teaching of Chinese Discourse Markers.