A Study On The "Zai、Zheng、Zhengzai、Zhe、Ne" In Elementary Intensive Reading Materials For Chinese As A Second Language

"zai""zheng""zhengzai""zhe""ne" are important means to express progressive or continuous aspect in modern chinese. They are frequetly used and listed in the chinese teaching as a second language grammar ouline for primary level. A lot of scholars have been researching them since1980s and they made a lot of achivements. But generally speaking, the articles combining ontology and textbooks for chinese teaching as a second language are not so many. This article is supplementary for this field. Through my quetionnaire survey, a lot of error sentences are made by foreigh students, because they are confused what are the differences between these words. The textbooks don’t analyse the differences between them. After the analysis of the reason of these errors, refering to the achivements in ontology reasearch, we make a summary about the grammar items A to J which have to add in the textbook and be taught to the students in the class. After my investigation about these words’ explanation and practices in the three popular serial textbooks, and analysis the dificiency, in the light of these problems, put forward the improvement suggestions on the textbook and druring the teaching process.