An Investigation and Analysis of Errors in Using Synonymous Action Verbs in Interlanguage
Cai Beigu · Shijie hanyu jiaoxue · 2010
The choosing and using of synonyms by foreign students have been the focus of vocabulary teaching and research.As the verb is the key element of a sentence,this research has made statistical analysis of Chinese action verbs chosen from the Interlanguage Database as the object with reference to the Modern Chinese Database.We concluded that:1) Errors in the use of action verbs is very common in the acquisition of vocabulary by foreign students,and it doesn't reduce with their progress in Chinese;2) The verbs involved in the errors are usually beyond synonyms that are usually recognized;and,3) The verbs that are confused by foreign students fall into two types:replacing error and replaced error.We suggest that the scope of study of synonymous action verbs should be widened to deal with the problems that arise in our teaching.