An Error Analysis Of The Positive-Negative Interrogative Sentences By Learners Form English Speaking Countries

Positive-negative interrogative sentence is a special type of modern Chinese interrogative sentence pattern. Thus, it has been one of the difficulties for the overseas Chinese learners, especially those from English-speaking countries owing to the great differences between Chinese and English. Therefore, positive-negative interrogative sentence has turned out to be one of the greatest obstacles in the Chinese learning process of learners from English-speaking countries.Chapter One is a introduction of this thesis, it mainly deals with the value of the thesis theme and gives a review of the academic research of this topic, other background information as area of research, source of corpus, and research method as well as theoretical basis is also been introduced in this chapter.Chapter Two is a research on the feature of positive-negative interrogative sentence. It is an analysis of syntactical and semantic features of positive-negative interrogative sentence, together with the comparison of positive-negative interrogative sentence in Chinese and similar sentence pattern in English.Chapter Three includes an introduction of present situation in the study of positive-negative interrogative sentence of the learners and the classified error analysis of the corpus in positive-negative interrogative sentence.Chapter Four is the analysis of the error cause of the corpus in positive-negative interrogative sentence. It lays mainly in the aspect of interference of mother tongue and target language, and failure in teaching and learning procedure. Then, it concludes this thesis by providing a learning recommendation to the teaching and learning procedure positive-negative interrogative sentences.