An Analysis Of Errors Of Donggan Students In Northwest Normal University In The Acquisition Of Chinese Word Order

Word order refers to the order of morphemes and word combinations in a language.It is the main grammatical means of Chinese.Chinese has a strict word order.The confusion of word order will result in the poor expression of semantics.Donggan overseas students have special historical background and language foundation.Most of them also master Russian and the main national languages of their host country on the basis of Donggan language.Such linguistic background has resulted in the particularity of the acquisition of Chinese word order by Donggan students.Northwest Normal University has enrolled undergraduate classes of East Asian Chinese children for many years.It is the largest education center for East Asian students in China and even in the world.The corpus used in this paper comes from the test papers and compositions of Donggan nationality students in grades 2013,2014 and 2015 of Northwest Normal University.The corpus is collated and analyzed by statistical method,contrastive method and retrospective method.Referring to relevant linguistic theories,the types of errors in the acquisition of Chinese word order of Donggan nationality students in Northwest Normal University are summarized,and the causes and phenomena of errors are analyzed.Solution strategies are put forward and instructional design is designed based on specific problems.Based on the analysis and statistics of the error corpus of more than 17,000 words of Donggan overseas students,210 sentences with word order errors were found.Among them,there are 35 attributive word order errors,98 adverbial word order errors,43 complement word order errors,23 verb-object word order errors and11 other word order errors.It can be seen that the errors in the acquisition of Chinese word order by Donggan students mainly focus on attributive,adverbial,complement and verb-object order.Through further comparative analysis,this paper finds that the main reasons for the errors in the acquisition of Chinese word order of Donggan students are: negative transfer of mother tongue,generalization,lack of specific exercises on the learning content,etc.In view of the causes of related errors,this paper argues that we should start from the following aspects to avoid the occurrence of errors.First,Using contrastive analysis to strengthen positive interlingual transfer;secondly,strengthening practiceand strengthening the content of knowledge learned;thirdly,grasping correct learning methods to improve learning efficiency;finally,we should change learning concepts and enhance learning initiative.