A Study Of Preposition (Phrase) Word Order Bias In Indonesian Learners

According to the frequency of commonly used prepositions of Indonesian students and the word order bias related to prepositions or prepositional phrases in the corpus,we determined the preposition objects studied in this paper,namely "in,to,to,to,to and from",so as to carry out the study on the word order bias related to these five types of prepositions.Through the investigation of word order bias in Chinese interlanguage corpus and the statistical results of sentence test in questionnaire,we find that when Indonesian learners use prepositional phrases as adverbials,they often place them in the predicate by mistake,and disorder them with the subject,other adverbials and other components in the sentence.When prepositional phrases are used as attributive,they are often mistakenly placed in attributive central language and in the wrong order with other attributive words.When a prepositional phrase is used as a complement,it is often mistakenly placed in front of the predicate.Among them,it is the most common error that prepositional phrases used as adverbial or attributive are mistakenly placed in the central language,which is still common even in the middle and high level,followed by the wrong order with other adverbial or attributive,as well as the internal wrong order of prepositional structure,including the internal wrong order of prepositional frame.A large part of the reasons for the above errors come from the influence of mother tongue,followed by the generalization of Chinese rules.In this regard,we also put forward corresponding suggestions for teachers,textbooks and learners.