Research On The Representation Of Collocation And Its Influencing Factors By Intermediate And Advanced Japanese Learners Of Chinese

This paper aims to investigate the representation of collocation by intermediate and advanced Japanese learners of Chinese and its influencing factors.The specific research questions are as follows.First,do intermediate and advanced Japanese learners of Chinese have a tendency to represent collocations holistically,and whether the frequency and congruency have an impact on it?Second,if the congruency has an effect,how does it affect the collocational acquisition of intermediate and advanced learners of Chinese?Third,if the frequency has an effect,how does it affect the collocational acquisition of intermediate and advanced learners of Chinese?Is there an interaction between the two factors?In order to answer these questions and achieve the purpose,this study is conducted in three phases.In the first phase,corpus tools were used to extract experimental materials——Chinese verb-noun collocations.The main procedure was as follows.Essays written by Japanese learners of Chinese were downloaded and processed to construct a learner corpus.Node words were first chosen and collocations were extracted base on appropriate mutual information,span and frequency.Congruency of collocations were then checked manually to determine the collocations used in this paper.In the second phase,two psychological experiments were designed and conducted.The subjects were intermediate and advanced learners of Chinese whose mother tongue is Japanese.Experiment 1 was a word judgment task,which mainly investigates learners'representation of Chinese collocations.Experiment 2 was a collocation judgment task,which mainly investigates the influence of congruency and frequency on the collocational processing.In the third phase,the experimental data were analyzed by SPSS and the results were discussedBased on the analysis of experimental data,we draw the following conclusions First,intermediate and advanced Japanese learners of Chinese have the tendency to holistically represent Chinese collocations,and both frequency and congruency are the influencing factors.Second,congruency has an effect on the collocational processing of intermediate and advanced learners.Congruent collocations are processed faster and more accurately than incongruent collocations.In addition,the effect of congruency may be weakened with the improvement of Chinese proficiency,but it is difficult to completely disappear.Third,frequency affects the collocational acquisition of Japanese learners of Chinese.The processing speed of high-frequency collocations is faster and the accuracy is higher,while low-frequency collocations produce opposite results.Moreover,the influence of frequency is more significant than that of congruency.Under the condition of high frequency,both congruent and incongruent collocations are processed significantly faster and more accurately than their counterparts under the low-frequency condition.In addition,the interaction between congruency and frequency was not significant.The above conclusions provide useful insights into the teaching of Chinese as a second language and the following suggestions are proposed.First,pay attention to the links between language items in teaching and treat them as whole units in the input so that they can gradually become entrenched in learners'mental lexicon.Second,understand learners' first language and help them raise the awareness of comparing and contrasting the first and second languages.Third,have repeated encounters timely to increase frequency effects.Fourth,use corpus tools to combine technology with teaching.