The Error Analysis and Suggestions of Teaching Chinese on Function Chinese Words Usage by Thai Undergraduates– Undergraduate in Business Chinese Major, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Thailand Undergraduate in Business Chinese Major, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Thailand

Abstract

“The Error of Function Words Usage” was a difficult teaching Chinese in Thailand and was a major obstacle that impacted the Chinese language improvement of Thai undergraduates. During teaching Chinese, “the false Chinese word usage” was a significant error on individual Chinese acquisition, instructor should set different teaching situations to introduce the key point of “the error of function Chinese words usage”. It became the big challenge between instructors and learners. Therefore, this article provided a new idea and solutions of the Chinese teaching difficulty including improvement and instructional development in the classroom. This article used the questionnaire to analyze the error of function Chinese words usage of Thai undergraduates. The informants were Thai undergraduate in Kasetsart University, Thailand as case study. The analysis found that the error of function Chinese words usage occurred during the acquisition of function Chinese words usage by undergraduates, which can be divided into five types: omission, misuse, redundant, collocation and word order. The main reasons of these error were the negative transfer of the mother tongue, the negative transfer of the target language knowledge, the influence of the communication strategy, the improper processing of the textbooks, and the inadequate explanation methods of the teachers. From the data collection, it showed that the prepositional error rate was the highest, and the conjunct and adverb bias ratio was the lowest. On this basis, the paper also discusses the methods and suggestions of the function Chinese words usage learning strategy.