A Study On Chinese Simile Acquisition Of Foreign Students

Simile is one of the most common type of metaphor.In modern Chinese,Huang Borong and Liao Xudong interpreted similes as a figure of speech where noumenon and metaphorical objects are appeared,and which is connected with vehicle,such as“like,as,as if”and so on.Nowadays,the teaching of Chinese rhetoric is becoming more and more important,and the simile is taught firstly in rhetoric teaching.But the research about similes acquisition specialty is very less,so the author collected 454 linguistic data from HSK dynamic corpora,interlanguage corpus of Ji nan University Firstly,collecting the statistics and doing the research on the right corpus from the four composition of simile and finding the produce of the law of acquisition is related with the students’ ability level,cultural background,thinking mode,the target language environment and other factors.And then,from the Angle of the errors,the author using the theory of bias analysis summarizes the types of errors and finding out the six sources of cause of errors,namely: The simile structure is complex and diverse,negative transfer of mother tongue,negative transfer of target language,negative transfer of culture,inappropriate learning strategy,unscientific teaching method and textbook compilation.Finally,the author putting forward some suggestions to teachers and students according to the law of students’ acquisition and errors.So that it can not only to have a more comprehensive and objective cognition for the acquisition characteristics of foreign students,but it also can help teachers forecast errors,formulate scientific teaching strategy in time,and help students using correct learning method to avoid the errors.Most importantly,it can bring theoretical and practical significance to the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.