The Acquisition Research Of Chinese Resultative Complement On European-American Students

Resultative complements appear frequently in Chinese.They have formed the teaching focus in TCSL classes due to their variety and usage flexibility.Ever since I became a TCSL teacher,I have observed that the foreign students make similar usage errors in resultative complements,especially the students who speak European or American languages,they found it hard to relate this particular linguistic phenomenon to their native languages learning experience.With the association of questionnaire survey result analysis,this research aims to discover the learning weak points,as well as categorize the common errors made by the students with different levels of Chinese competency during their language acquisition.Survey respondents are the European-American students who are studying Chinese in Shanghai Jiao Tong University on basic and intermediate level.The test paper is designed around 20 core resultative complements of basic and intermediate level,aiming at 7 error-prone points.The main detect question type is multiple choice format,additionally we asked the students to rewrite the given sentences into resultative complements structure to explore other errors the students may have.From the results of this test,we have learnt that the main error types of these two levels are: the mismatch,missing,misuse of negation,mis-order,mis-mix and mis-adding.Both level students had a good mastery on “dui”,“wan”,“hao”,“dong”,“ganjing”,but didn’t have a good command of “dao”,“zou”,“diao”,“man”,“cheng”;out of our expectation,intermediate level students did worse than basic level students on “zhao”;in general,intermediate level students did better than basic level students on habitual verb complement collocations;two levels’ acquisition of using directional verbs as resultative complements and using resultative complement structure with detachable verbs are not ideal;both level students showed the lack of resultative complements using awareness.According to the resultative complements acquisition situation,we made three teaching suggestions: firstly,develop students’ using acceptance at the very beginning of resultative complements learning,as this language feature is inevitable in Chinese communication;secondly,based on the specific contents,taking lexical approach into resultative complements class teaching;thirdly,TCSL teachers should consciously increase the inputs of resultative complements in the teaching process.