Pivotal Sentences In TCFL:Error Analyses And Teaching Strategies

The “Jianyu” Sentence is used for communicating in very frequently in our daily life and the students studying abroad always meet with difficulties in learning.We should follow certain principles and methods in teaching Chinese as a foreign language,starting from the learning and teaching,and we should not only teach foreign students themselves,at the same time,teachers should improve their teaching level,take the student as the center and continuously explore new teaching methods to promote the grammar teaching Chinese as a foreign language.Pivotal sentence has always existed as a special sentence pattern in Chinese.It plays a vital role in both written and spoken aspects.Simultaneously,it is also an important and difficult point in the teaching of Chinese for foreign learners.In the process of learning Chinese,foreign students often cannot thoroughly understand and perceive pivotal sentence,and then often make mistakes in the selection and adoption of verbs or combinations.Consequently,there always be a variety of errors in the process of learning pivotal sentences in Chinese due to the aforementioned errors as well as the negative transfer from the native language of foreign learners.Therefore,this article aims to combine the foreign language teaching and the research on pivotal sentence itself based on the analysis of the various errors found in the pivotal sentences made by foreign students in the HSK dynamic composition corpus.In the teaching of Chinese for foreign learners,from the perspectives of both learning and teaching,through the analysis on the the errors made by foreign students,it is concluded that the reasons for the aforementioned errors mainly includes negative transfer of the knowledge in target language,negative transfer of mother tongue,learning and communication strategies,as well as teachers and teaching materials.It is necessary to adopt more effective methods to resolve the problems both from the errors above and foreign learners themselves.Meanwhile,teachers should improve their teaching level,pay more attention on students,and constantly explore new teaching methods to enrich teaching process,such as situational teaching methods,,induction methods and other teaching methods Besides,with the selection of teaching materials and training of exercises,it is more efficient to develop the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.