A Study Of Indonesian Students' Acquisition Of Chinese Interrogative Sentence

Interrogative sentence in learning Chinese grammar is one of the difficult points to many Indonesian students. These difficulties are caused by various factors, such as the complexity of the sentence, the translation of learners' mother tongue, and the over generalization of the target language, this coincides to second language acquisition and cognitive theory. In view of this, points from other researches resulted to this paper main point of comparison of Chinese and Indonesian interrogative sentence. This research pointed out the possible errors and difficulties committed. The author also included the cause and reason of each errors committed. Moreover, with the use of dialogues and the result statistics, preliminary theory, and the reasons behind the errors will give way to suggestions for further improvement needed. This paper is mainly consists of five chapters:Introduction, introduces the current situation of Chinese and Indonesian depth of knowledge in the use of interrogative sentence, purpose of the research, methods, and the scope of the study. In the first chapter, it is about the comparative study of the interrogative elements in Chinese as well as in Indonesian language by using Contrastive Analysis Method, and to find out the similarities and differences between the two languages. In the second chapter of the paper, the author classified and analyzed the errors of the learners by using the Error Analysis Method. In the third chapter, the author made use of Acquisition Interval Method, Relative Frequency Method and the result of the statistics, highlighting the learners'state of acquisition. The fourth chapter mainly pointed out the first three chapters of the research taking into account the use of teaching materials and classroom teaching and lastly, chapter five discussed about the whole summary of the research as well as the deficiency still needed to be improved.