Instructional Design And Error Analysis For Overseas Students About The Directional Verbs

Directional verbs which is used to indicate the direction of the movement, following behind the verbs or adjectives, serves as the directional complement in a sentence. Directional verbs have its own characteristics and its grammar and syntax function forms are relatively complex. Therefore, the directional verbs appeared to be the the key and difficult point in Chinese courses for foreign students.Basing on the summarizing predecessors’ work, the thesis try to give an induction and summary of the two directional verbs: “come” and “go” on its meaning and usage. Moreover, this thesis collects and summarize the directional verbs in HSK corpus to do the research of the written Chinese of the foreign students. In the process of practice,the author found that foreign students often make mistakes on using directional verbs “qù” and “lái”. Thus, referring to relevant authoritative books and papers on Chinese teaching, this paper takes the two directional verbs “come” and “go” as an example, to discuss how to resolve the practical problems of teaching and learning Chinese and provides some practical and helpful suggestions and instructive designs.This essay is mainly divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an general introduction of the research objective and significance,background and methods. The second chapter is mainly about the survey analysis according questionnaires and corpus. The third chapter is aim to investigate errors refer to four factors: the interference of mother tongue, over-generalization of the target language rules, the influence of learning strategy and learning environment. The forth chapter illuminates personal teaching suggestions in terms of analysis and research mentioned above:reasonable arrangement of teaching materials, practical teaching methods and self-improvement of the level of teachers. The last chapter is overall summary and points out the deficiencies.