A Corpus Based Study Of Errors In The Acquisition Of Primary Psychological Verbs By Foreign Students

Psychological verbs are subcategory of Chinese verbs,and also the focus and difficulty of teaching Chinese as a second language.This paper analyzes the errors of primary psychological verbs in the global Chinese interlanguage corpus,and tries to put forward some suggestions for improving the teaching effect of psychological verbs.This paper is mainly divided into three parts.In the first part,21 primary psychological verbs are selected from the International Chinese Education Chinese Level Standard according to the combination of functional framework and semantic features,and the ontological language features and usage rules of these common psychological verbs are analyzed,so as to provide a more sufficient theoretical basis for the analysis of errors and causes.The second part is the concrete analysis of errors.This paper retrieves 1467 error corpus containing 21 primary psychological verbs from the Global Chinese Interlanguage Corpus,which are classified into four categories: mixed use,wrong order,wrong addition and omission.Among them,"mixed use" has the largest number of errors,there are 882,accounting for 60.12% of the total number of errors.In particular,there are 777 mixed use corpus among psychological verbs,accounting for 88.10% of mixed use.Based on this,this paper classifies "errors in mixed use of psychological verbs" into seven categories according to errors situation and semantic relations of psychological verbs,and analyzes the situation of each type of errors in detail.The second is "wrong order".There are 303 error corpus.According to the wrong order of psychological verbs and related components in the error corpus,they are divided into two categories: "wrong order of verb object","subject postposition",of which "verb object wrong order" has the largest number of errors.Finally,there are "wrong addition" and "omission",the number of errors is relatively small,with 219 and 63 errors respectively.The third part is the analysis of the causes of errors and the corresponding teaching suggestions.Based on the types of errors,this paper explores the causes of errors from the three aspects of "students","teaching materials" and "characteristics of Chinese psychological verbs".In the aspect of students,it is mainly the simplification and avoidance strategies and the negative transfer of students’ mother tongue;In the aspect of teaching materials,insufficient information on new words in the teaching materials,single questions in the teaching materials and lack of effective exercises are the main reasons for errors;In addition,there are confusing words in primary psychological verbs,and insufficient research results on psychological verbs collocation are also important reasons for errors.Based on the analysis of the causes of errors,we put forward specific teaching suggestions from the three levels of "teachers","students","teaching materials",hoping to provide reference for primary psychological verbs and related teaching,improving the teaching effect and reduce the error rate of foreign students’ acquisition of primary psychological verbs.