A Corpus-based Study On Numeral Idioms For Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

The rising up "Chinese hot" drives foreign students become more and more interested in learning Chinese, which promotes the vigorous development of teaching Chinese in foreign countries. However, for a long time, there is a serious disconnect between the Chinese theory and the Chinese practice. The study of Chinese language have reached a certain height, but the Chinese theory fail to guide the teaching well.Numeral idioms, an important part of Chinese vocabulary, is the important and difficult for foreign students in their advanced Chinese study.The structure of numeral idioms, which is fixed, simple, meaningful and culture-contained.But it is because of the abundant intention of digital idioms and the uniqueness of the structure that the foreign students find it so difficult to learn that they often make many mistakes.So far, the study of numerical idioms has focused on ontology research and comparative study of Chinese and foreign language.Very few researches are related to numerical idioms from the perspective of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, especially for numeral idioms researches concerning bias cases. So,based on the HSK dynamic composition corpus and Jinanuniversity corpus and taking the errors made by foreign students as examples, the thesis try to find out the types and the reasons according to different countries and put forward practical teaching strategies to help foreign students to learn Chinese and provide some help for the teaching Chinese as a foreign language.This article is divided into five parts:The first part is the review. It mainly describes the source of the selected topic and the domestic and foreign research status about digital idioms, the research methods,the corpus sources,determine the object of study,and the purpose and significance of this paper research.The second part, starting from the digital idioms ontology, comprehensive analyzes the definition, structure, meaning and grammar of the digital idioms. At the same time, it briefly explain the teaching Chinese as a foreign language as well as the corpus of the digital idioms.The third part studies the digital idioms errors by foreign students. First of all, it briefly introduce the the digital idioms which are easy and difficult to grasp respectively and analyzes the reasons. Second, with the errors made by students from Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore andCambodia, it classify the case by countries and analyzes the causes of errors.The fourth part puts forward the four kinds of teaching method and the specific classroom teaching strategies of errors mentioned above.The fifth part is the epilogue. It summarizes the main ideas and innovation of this article and deeply studies the the deficiencies of this paper.