THE RESEARCH ON THE ACQUISITION SEQUENCE OF “gei” IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF THAI–CHINESE TEACHING: A CASE STUDY OF RATCHABORIKANUKROH MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THAILAND

Abstract

"Gei" has a long history in Chinese language, it’s part of speech is very active, has been the focus of research in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Chinese teaching in Thailand, "gei" is an important knowledge point for Thai Chinese learners to master in the elementary and intermediate stage. It is a highly frequent word appeared in Chinese college entrance examination (PAT7.4) and HSK elementary and intermediate exams in Thailand, and also is a very key and difficult point in Chinese teaching of high schools in Thailand.

This paper through the collection, screening, analysis and classification of relevant corpus database from Thailand high school syllabus, Thai oversea students written language corpus database of Ji Nan university, Thailand Chinese college entrance examination (PAT7.4) and teaching books of Chinese major of high school in Thailand Ratchaborikanukroh middle school. Which found that the students of Chinese major in high school of Thailand, the acquisition of content of "gei" includes basic knowledge of sound, form ,meaning and grammatical aspects of the five points:

1. A verb, it indicates give, to make someone to get something or encounter. Sentence structure: “gei”+ NP.

2. A verb，double objects construction: “gei”+NP1+NP2, it indicates “gei”, it expresses to

make someone to get something or encounter.
3. A verb, it indicates order, it expresses to order someone do something or allow someone

do kind of action. Sentence structure: “gei”+pivotal+V+NP, it is different with “rang”, “jiao”. 4. A preposition, with the meaning of "for", "replace", "help", introduces the behavior of

action or beneficiary. Sentence structure: “gei”+NP1+V+ (NP2).
5. A preposition, it indicates hand in, deliver. Sentence structure: V+ (NP2) +“gei”+NP1 or

V+“gei”+NP1+ (NP2).
By means of questionnaire survey, and using the standard of average accuracy, the

students of high school of Chinese major in Ratchaborikanukroh middle school as a case

which is the actual acquisition order of “gei” are: item1 → item3 →item5 → item2 → item4. And then the answer results of a questionnaire test, and by the Thai oversea students written language corpus database of Ji Nan university, "gei" with relevant written language corpus database are errors collection, identification, description, explanation, evaluation, inductive bias types, this paper analyzes the reasons of errors, find out the method of correcting errors, and according to the characteristics of the Thai language learners (including the use of the Thai language and cultural differences) to draw up a suited to students of Chinese major of high school in Thailand with order of acquisition of " gei ", it means basic knowledge of " gei " and five items in no particular order.
Finally, the proposed acquisition sequence is taken as the guide to make teaching plans

for teaching practice, and its feasibility is verified in the teaching feedback.