Research On The Correlation Between Japanese Students’ Chinese Word Order Errors And Chinese Proficiency

Word order is an important grammatical methods of Chinese.Its importance and complexity make it a key and difficult point in teaching Chinese as a foreign language,as well as for Japanese learners.Japanese word order is relatively flexible,which is quite different from Chinese with relatively fixed word order.Japanese students often make errors in word order when learning Chinese.This paper first sorts and summarizes the current academic achievements in the study of Chinese word order,the comparative study of Chinese and Japanese order,the study of word order errors of foreign students,and the study of word order errors related to students’ Chinese proficiency.Based on the interlanguage theory,contrastive analysis theory and error analysis theory,this study conducts by using statistical analysis,contrastive analysis and error analysis.Secondly,it compares the order of Chinese and Japanese from the perspective of sentence composition,and predicts the possible word order errors of Japanese students on the basis of the comparison.Then,based on the 1170 cases of word order error corpus of learners of different Chinese proficiency extracted from the HSK dynamic composition corpus version 2.0,the types of word order errors of Japanese students are specifically classified and described.It is found that Japanese students mainly have subject-predicate order errors,predicate-object order errors,attributive word order errors,adverbial word order errors,complement word order errors and other word order errors.Among them,adverbial word order errors are the most,and complement word order errors are the least.On this basis,it explores the correlation between the types of word order errors of Japanese students and their Chinese proficiency.First,the distribution of word order errors of learners of different Chinese levels is counted,and the relationship between word order error distribution and Chinese level is combed.Then the reasons for the change of word order error distribution are analyzed.It is found that various word order errors occur in students of different levels,but the proportions of each level will be different,and as learners’ Chinese proficiency improves,the proportion of subject-predicate order errors,predicate-object order errors,and auxiliary word order errors will continue to decline,the proportions of attributive word order errors and adverbial word order errors will continue to rise,while the proportion of complement word order errors and conjunction word order errors will rise first and then decline.The main reasons for the change are the influence of negative transfer of mother tongue,the influence of negative transfer of target language,the difficulty of target language knowledge,the mastery of students and the learning strategies of learners.Finally,some relevant suggestions are put forward to the teachers and learners respectively.At present,the academic circles have rarely investigated the relationship between word order errors and learners’ Chinese proficiency from the perspective of dynamic diachronic development.Therefore,this study hopes to explore the correlation between Japanese students’ word order errors and students’ Chinese proficiency to propose some more targeted suggestions,hoping to provide some references for teaching and learning Chinese as a foreign language.