The Error Analysis Of Indonesian Student S,Acquisition Of "有" And "在"

Chinese education in Indonesia falls into foreign or second language education (both of which are hereafter referred to as second language acquisition for convenience’sake). As a native speaker of Indonesian teaching Chinese, I have come to realize that the negative transfer from student’s mother tongue or first language ("negative transfer from one’s mother tongue" refers to Indonesian students leaning Chinese, and "negative transfer from one’s first language", to Chinese Indonesians learning Chinese, both of which are hereafter referred to as "mother tongue negative transfer" for convenience’ sake) and insufficient knowledge of the Chinese language lead to various types of errors as a result of their ignorance of Chinese grammatical rules.This paper first views Chinese instruction as belonging to second language acquisition and then, on the basis of previous relevant studies, applies the theories of contrastive analysis, error analysis as well as theories and methodologies in second language acquisition to explorations of the process of the above-said students learning“有”and“在”with a view to discovering its regularities for more effective teaching.For this purpose the present study begins with our collection of the errors made by the above-mentioned students in learning“有”and“在”with the aid of the Corpus from the Chinese and Culture College of Jinan University and the writer’s own questionnaires. Our analyses then lead to the categories and causes of such errors, revealing the students’acquisition sequence and features at elementary, intermediate and advanced levels respectively. Finally, contrastive analysis and the model of scaled difficulty are adopted to look into The Syllabus of Chinese as a Second Language and the organization of“有”and“在”in The Coursebook in Chinese for Indonesians. It is suggested that there is room for improvement in the Coursebook and actual instruction. Proposals are accordingly put forward as regards teaching strategies.