Analysis and Instructional Recommendations of Thai Learners’ Misplaced Morpheme Coinages of Chinese (English)

Abstract

Through extracting the corpus from the HSK Dynamic Composition Corpus and the Global Chinese Interlanguage Corpus, this paper analyzes Thai learners’ output of coinages in the process of learning Chinese from the perspective of the characteristics, semantics and word-formation of the Chinese-Thai language. This research classifies coinages according to the categories of Chinese compound words and applies the comparative analysis of mediated languages (CIA) approach to analyze the mediated languages, learners’ native languages, and target languages in a systematic manner. The reasons behind Thai learners’ misplaced morpheme coinages while learning Chinese are studied, and recommendations for correcting Thai learners’ misplaced morpheme- coinages are provided.