The Study For Foreign Students’ Overt Errors On The Expressions Of Chinese Time Structures

The time structure is a combination of expressing the concept of time, which is animportant way for time representation of Chinese. This study begins from the type ofChinese time structures, combines with “HSK dynamic composition corpus” and specialquestionnaire test error corpus. It investigates and analyzes the foreign students acquisitioncondition of the expressions for Chinese time structures. It carries on a study and analysesthe attributions for overt errors of seven time structures, includes the time structure ofnumeral and noun combination, noun attributive time structure, the time structure ofadjective combination, the time structure of noun of locality, the time structure of noun oflocality, the time structure of the demonstrative pronouns and noun combination, thetime structure of the predicate composition and "time" combination, the time structure ofpreposition framework, trying to present some targeted teaching strategies based on theresults of this study.The main achievement of this study is to take a classified study for overt errors ofChinese time structures, finding the overt errors of omission, addition, over-representation,misordering and hybridity in seven time structures and doing a investigation and analysis.It analyzes three aspects for influencing the overt errors from the interlanguage influence,learning strategies and misleading factors by category, presenting some practical teachingstrategies and enriching the systematic cognition of time structures’ overt errors in the fieldof teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Its expectation is to bring some inspire effectsin learning Chinese time structures for foreign students and teaching it for the teachers.