English-speaking Students Potential Complement Error Analysis

Potential Complement is the peculiar syntactic component in Chinese, which is afrequently--used grammar in Chinese daily communications. It’s easy to master thestructure, but the semantics is complex and there are more pragmatic constraints in it.Therefore, potential complement has always been the relatively weak content in thesecond language teaching and research. And it is also the difficulty in students’study. The research objects are the overseas students whose native language is English.Through questionnaires and in view of the learning problems of potential complementwhich the native English students will have, this paper summarizes the types and thecauses of the learning bias errors based on the comparison of Chinese and English aswell as the bias errors analysis. Meanwhile, this paper puts forward correspondingteaching strategies that are helpful to the native English students in Chinese learning.This paper consists of seven parts:The first part mainly introduces the topic significance and research methods.The second part summarizes ontology research on Chinese potential complement,analyzing its semantic characteristics, pragmatic features and the present teachingsituations.The third part compares the structure, semantics, pragmatics of the potentialcomplement in both Chinese and English based on different possible complementexpressions of Chinese and English, thus finding out the similarities and differencesbetween the two languages.The fourth part makes use of questionnaires to survey the learning situations ofstudents whose mother tongue is English and analyzes the survey results.The fifth part summarizes four types of bias mistakes that native English studentsmay make according to the survey results.The sixth part analyzes the reasons of the bias errors and puts forward the teachingstrategies.The seventh part is the conclusion that summarizes the whole contents.