Students Time Words Bias Analysis

Closing to the textbooks of TCSL and aiming at facilitating the analysis of errors, this thesis classified the time words and time phrases. The time phrases which can express time conceptions contain noun phrases, positional phrases, prepositional phrases. This thesis collected 5000 pieces of Korea and English students'compositions from the HSK dynamic compositions corpus of Beijing Language University. Based on the theory of Second language acquisition, and the methods of error analysis and comparative analysis, this thesis studied types and reasons of errors, and gave some teaching advises.From the study, we find that types of errors lie in aspects of the vocabulary, the grammar, and the context when the students use time words and phrases to express time conceptions. At the aspect of vocabulary, errors lie in self-made words, words-redundant and words-missing; at the aspect of grammar, as grammatical components in sentence, errors lie in wrong forms of expression, the misuse and wrong sequence with other grammatical components; at the aspect of context, errors lie in time refers-redundant, time refers-missing, time refers-unknown, and the confusion of far refers and nearly refers.This thesis corrected errors, and analyzed reasons of errors standing on the different aspects, such as the contrast of Chinese and English, the contrast of Chinese and Korean. The main reason of errors is the negative transfer of mother language. In addition, we analyzed reasons of main errors which occurred frequently. The main reason of errors is the negative transfer of target language, the particularity and economical of Chinese time concepts expression; and the influence of textbooks and dictionaries.According to types and reasons of errors, we gave some teaching advises, including methods of contrast in teaching, the conception of Lexical Phrases in teaching, and the special way of introduction in teaching.