A Study Of Syntactic Transfer In Moroccan Students’ Acquisition Of Special Verb-Predicate Sentences In A Multilingual Context

Transfer is the effect of similarities and differences between the target language and any other previously learned(or incompletely learned)language.Language transfer occurs at all levels of language analysis,such as syntactic transfer.The learner’s linguistic background will have an impact on the acquisition of the target language,resulting in a transfer effect.While multilingual students with more than one source language will play a role in the transfer between source languages,and will be affected by several different factors.Because of historical,religious and other factors,there is a pluralistic language environment in Morocco,Chinese learners often have mastered Arabic,Amazigh,French,English or other languages,so when Moroccan students learn Chinese special verb predicates,they will also be influenced by different source languages,resulting in a large number of syntactic transfer phenomena.Understanding the role played by different source languages and different factors in syntactic transfer will help to understand the difficulties of Moroccan students when learning Chinese special verb predicate sentences,and promote the Chinese teaching career in Morocco for students from multilingual backgrounds.This study will take Moroccan Chinese learners as the research object,screen the participants according to the students’ background language situation,and study the syntactic transfer of special verb predicate sentences in Chinese by different source languages in Morocco in terms of two factors: language distance,target language and source language level.Before the experiment,the author put forward three hypotheses:first,the interlanguage influence of different source languages can be reflected in the syntactic transfer of special verb predicate sentences,because the objective language distance between the source language and the target language is large,referring to the phenomenon of "foreign language aggregation",it is assumed that non-native languages have a greater impact on Chinese acquisition;Second,the level of source language is also a key factor affecting target language acquisition,and students with multilingual backgrounds have multiple source languages,so different source language levels also have an impact on target syntax acquisition;Third,due to the different arrangement of Chinese key sentence patterns in teaching,it is assumed that the level of the target language will have an impact on the generation of Chinese syntax.This paper experiments adopt syntactic judgment tasks,design a total of 18 questions,and analyze the experimental data of the participants to obtain experimental results,which confirm the author’s three hypotheses: first,the interlinguistic influence of different source languages is reflected in the syntactic transfer of special verb predicate sentences,there is a large difference between the number of syntactic transfers produced by the three source languages of Moroccan students,and the number of transfers generated by non-native languages French and English is much greater than that of native Arabic,and L3 English has the largest number of transfers;Second,the number of syntactic transfers occurred differently among students with different source language levels,and the number of transfers produced by students with balanced source language levels was less than that of unbalanced students;Third,syntactic transfer occurs at all stages of Chinese learning,and students at intermediate and advanced levels are also affected by syntactic transfer from the source language.