Error Analysis And Teaching Suggestions On Using Chinese Classifers Of Thai Students

We know that in the Sino-Tibetan languages family, classifiers in a variety of verbal communication occasions are very important. Another languages have expression unit and the number of words, but generally confined to the unit of measurement and specific problems. We found that the numeral and the noun (or verb) combined with number of things of expression. In many cases, we don’t necessary to use unit word as a expression of content. In the Sino-Tibetan languages, especially in modern Chinese, the numeral and the noun (or verb) combined with the table number of things, classifiers can’t practically omit. Classifiers are rich and complex part of speech, from the perspective of syntax, speech activities of scientific, precision, perspective of pragmatics, language features and visualize of the rhetoric. For this reason, many foreigners are not able to use classifiers and classifiers become obstacles for learning Chinese and Chinese international education.Classifiers are important part of speech on the lexical, syntax, high frequency using. Classifiers are the one of the difficulties part for foreigners to learning Chinese, Thai students also have this problem. Chinese and Thai have classifiers, and they are different on semantic and syntactic aspects. Researcher attempt to study on modern Chinese Classifiers, including the momentum term classifiers. Researcher hoping to enhance the Chinese proficiency of Thai students and teachers’s teaching level. Researcher introduce topics of research in the introduction include research significance, research history, research content and materials, research methods and explanation. Research divided into five chapters.The first chapter is the introduction include research significance, research history, research content and materials, research methods and explanation.The second chapter introduce classifiers’s source, definitions, characteristics and classifications.The third chapter is the investigation of Chiang Mai Rajabhat University’s students using classifiers. Include section I:students’s background, section II:Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, Faculty of Humanities,Chinese major using Chinese classifiers questionnaire’s result and Section III:Summary.The fourth chapter is causing of classifiers’s error analysis in two aspects. First, analyze causing error on teaching, include teaching methods and materials and then analyze causing error on learning of Chinese classifiers.The fifth chapter is teaching suggestions, include the consolidating of classifiers’s theory research and particular case research, formulating outline and compile teaching materials, simplify and standardize the different stages of the classifiers’s teaching, correct and appropriate teaching methods,simplified Chinese classifiers and standard.In the conclusion, researcher conclude that the cause of error using Chinese classifiers of Thai students are the interference of the mother tongue, the teacher should first teach classifiers that happen the most error and at last teach classifiers that happen least error, at the same time pointed out the main reason that causing error analysis and teaching methods, and directions for future research. Researcher hope this thesis is helpful for whom teaching Chinese as a foreign language.