A Contrastive Analysis Of"Zai"and"You"and A Study Of Second Language Acquisition

This paper takes the adverbs "zai" and "you" as the research object,and makes a comparative analysis of "zai" and "you" from syntax,semantics and pragmatics on the basis of sages’ researches.On the basis of analyzing corpus and questionnaire survey,this paper tries to explore the types and causes of errors caused by foreign students’ acquisition of "zai" and "you".Finally,some feasible teaching methods are given according to the characteristics of "zai" and “you”.And from the teacher,the student and the teaching material revision and so on aspect puts forward certain suggestion,it is expected to bring help to teaching Chinese as a foreign language.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is the introduction,which mainly introduces the significance of the topic,the ontological research status of "zai" and "you",the research status of "zai" and "you" teaching Chinese as a foreign language,the research methods and the sources of corpus.The second chapter makes a contrastive analysis of the adverbs "zai" and "you" from syntax,semantics and pragmatics.Syntactically,it analyzes the collocation of "zai" and "you" with verbs,the conjunction with adverbs and the choice of tenses.Semantically,the repeated meanings of "zai" and "you" are explained,and their differences in semantic representation are analyzed.This paper analyzes the selection of pragmatic clauses,the position of stress and the choice of context in the pragmatics.The third chapter analyzes the collected corpus,and designs the questionnaire.The questionnaire survey was conducted among the students at different levels of primary,middle and high level in the International College of Chinese Studies,Shanghai Normal University.This paper analyzes the characteristics of the respondents and the answers in the questionnaire.Combined with the corpus of HSK dynamic composition corpus of Beijing Language and Culture University,this paper analyzes the types and causes of the errors of foreign students in learning "zai" and "you".In chapter four,according to the characteristics of "zai" and "you" and the types of errors in the acquisition of "zai" and "you" and the causes of these errors,the corresponding suggestions are put forward from the four aspects of teaching methods,teachers,students and textbook revision.The fifth chapter summarizes the whole paper,puts forward some problems to be solved,and points out the shortcomings of this paper.