A STUDY OF THE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT RULES OF CHINESE VERB-OBJECT COLLOCATION PRODUCTIVE COMPETENCE OF THAI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: TAKE THE GENERAL VERB “ZUO” AS AN EXAMPLE
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Collocation is an important indicator to assessing the profundity of one’s knowledge of vocabulary. This article is based on the static composition corpus for two consecutive three semesters of students who majored in teaching Chinese language of the school of sinology at MFLU, combined with the dynamic survey, taking the general verb “Zuo” with rich collocations as an example. The three dimensions of collocation types, collocation frequency and collocation errors are conducted to diachronic investigate the Chinese verb-object collocation productive competence and development of Thai university students. The study found that with the improvement of learners’ learning stage, the productive competence and development rules of their verb-object collocations are as follows: 1) The range of collocation words expands, and the proportion of high-frequency collocation words decreases in turn, but there is a high degree of transitional use; 2) Basic words in collocations have an absolute advantage and show a clear decreasing trend, while middle and high-level words are limited and show a slow growth trend; 3) The error rate of collocations decreases in turn, and the error distribution is concentrated and single, that is the obvious collocation errors is the verb misuse; 4) The stage development of verb-object collocation competence is uneven, and there are phenomena such as falling back, basically flat and rapid development in various dimensions. The results of the appeal research have certain enlightening significance for us to teaching Chinese verb-object collocation for Thai university students.
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