THE ACQUISITION OF THE GRAMMATICAL MARKERS LE, ZHE, AND GUO BY SLOVAK LEARNERS OF CHINESE
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Peer-reviewed scientific article |
| Magazine / Source | Apps - Academic Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages |
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| web | https://ojs.tuzvo.sk/index.php/apps/article/view/217 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.17423/apps.2026.04.1.04 |
| Keywords | Chinese language acquisition; error analysis; interlanguage; learner corpus |
| Description | The present study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the error distribution in the written production of Slovak learners of Chinese at the beginner level in regard to the acquisition of the grammatical markers le, zhe, and guo used for specifying the state of an action. Despite the fact that their theoretical use is usually introduced in the initial phase of Chinese language study, mastering their accurate use in the target language is often challenging, especially for beginner learners of Chinese. Their language output tends to display its misuse, underuse, or overuse due to the learner’s limited development of native speaker-like proficiency and absent language intuition in the target language. Error analysis of the textual material written by L1 Slovak learners of Chinese illustrates the distribution and typology of errors at the initial phase of study, based on the language data processed in the Chinese Learner Corpus of Slovak Students. |