A Study On Chinese Learners' Quantifier Usage Errors Based On "Informal Talks

The research results of quantifiers under the perspective of teaching Chinese as a foreign language are quite abundant.However,through the observation of the interview programs jointly participated by Chinese and foreign guests,there are still a lot of quantifier errors when Chinese learners discuss and debate around the current heat topics.The TV show “Informal Talks” has been broadcast for nine seasons in total.The foreign resident representatives,one-day representatives and foreign guests invited to participate in the recording all have advanced Chinese level and good Chinese output ability.Informal Talks is not only a variety show with a collision of diverse ideas and cultures,but also an oral language corpus with considerable research values.Therefore,with Informal Talks(S7)as corpus source,this paper selects main feature,a total of 20 video,through software generate subtitles and manual proofreading combination of the variety of foreign resident guest and a day guest speech,and form the text,set up a spoken language corpus of seventeen Chinese learners.Based on the corpus,this paper uses statistical analysis,error analysis and other research methods to investigate the use of nominal quantifier,verb quantifier and indefinite quantifier among Chinese learners in Informal Talks.This paper also statistics the frequency of use of quantifiers and their usage and collocation.Then,it sorts out Chinese learners’ errors in oral expression of nominal quantifier,verb quantifier and indefinite quantifier,and analyzes reasons from quantifier characteristics,speakers of negative migration,users target language knowledge generalization,the influence of the user communication strategy and the influence of user language environment.And it tries to further think about strategies and measures in dealing with quantifier errors of Chinese learners in oral communication,in order to improve the accuracy of Chinese learners using Chinese quantifiers and enrich the study of error analysis of Chinese learners.