The Error Of Individual Numeral Classifiers In Korean Students' Chinese Interlanguage

In modern Chinese, the numeral cassifiers is very rich. Some individual numeral cassifiers are representative in Chinese numeral cassifiers. Meanwhile, foreign students often fail to use numeral cassifiers appropriately. The use of individual numeral cassifiers is complicated. The collocation is not one-to-one as well. Sometimes, one numeral cassifier may match more than one word while many numeral cassifiers match one word. Therefore, in foreign language teaching, the use of individual numeral cassifiers is a key point. It is a difficult task as well. For foreign students, with the improvement of their Chinese, their understanding about language contexts further develop, so as their comprehension on the collocation of numeral cassifiers. However, it is also important to lay a solid foundation and have a clear understanding at the beginning. Therefore, this paper chooses ten individual numeral cassifiers in�the outline of HSK level standards and level�as examples. On the basis of semantic features, it analyzes the reasons for foreigners having misunderstandings. It also investigates how Korean students use numeral cassifiers so as to better help learners with the use of numeral cassifiers. Meanwhile, it gives methodologies about teaching individual numeral cassifiersThis paper is composed of five chapters.The first chapter summarizes previous achievements in the study of numeral cassifiers. It introduces the origin, the importance, and the scope of this topic. It lays an emphasis on the ten individual numeral cassifiers, summarizing the use of Chinese quantifiers, Korean quantifiers and Chinese individual cassifier. It provides the theoretical background for this paper.The second chapter presents the questionnaire based on the corpus. The participants are 31 Korean students from the College of International Culture Exchange, Hebei Normal University. It aims to guide the Korean students to a better use of Chinese numeral cassifiers. This paper summarizes the types of their mistakes, which lays a foundation on the study to explore the reasons.The third chapter introduces the origin, the semantics and the misuse of these ten common numeral cassifiers.The fourth chapter tries to explore the reasons of their misuse of numeral cassifiers on the basis of questionnaires and data analysis. It discovers that their knowledge of mother languages, target languages and over-generalization would negatively influence their study in Chinese.The fifth chapter gives suggestions on the study of individual numeral cassifiers teaching and learning. The teachers should value the teaching to students at various stages and the contextual teaching. They should gain their students' interests in numeral cassifiers learning and strengthen their understandings.