The speech processing strategies used by Thai university students in acquiring chinese “Ba” constructions based on multidimensional model
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The purpose of this research is to study the development trajectory and the speech processing strategies while acquiring Chinese “Ba” constructions by Thai university students. This research is based on 952 corpora from more than 2,000 mid-term and final exam composition corpora collected by three-year Thai university students who majored in teaching Chinese language of the School of Sinology at Mae Fah Luang University for three consecutive semesters 2014-2016. The research method of corpus linguistics and two data analysis methods including implicational scale and cluster analysis were used in this research. The results of the study were as follows: 1) In general, the acquisition of Chinese “Ba” constructions by Thai university students follows certain internal rules, and the four acquisition stages experienced in the acquisition process are both systematic and dynamic; 2) on the whole, It can be seen that the speech processing strategies used by Thai university students to acquire different types of Chinese “Ba” constructions reflect the following implication relation: “canonical order strategy” < “appending strategy” < “superposition strategy” < “insertion strategy”; 3) The speech processing strategies of Thai university students acquiring different types of Chinese “Ba” constructions reflects the principle of the speech processing from easy to difficult. Based on the above conclusions, the teaching revelation for Thai college students in the “Ba” constructions is as follows: 1) The teaching sequence should be scientifically and reasonably arranged according to the difficulty of acquisition and speech processing of each sentence pattern of the “Ba” constructions; 2) Determine the teaching focus according to the learning stage and give full play to the positive influence of teaching at the same time; 3) Pay attention to the teaching of the semantic and syntactic conditions of the “Ba” constructions, especially the teaching of semantic conditions.
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