What are the most frequent grammatical errors in Chinese learners

The most frequent grammatical errors made by Chinese learners of English include errors in prepositions, articles, verb tense and verb form, word order, auxiliary verbs, and noun-adjective confusion. Typical errors are:

• Preposition errors are very common due to differences between Chinese and English prepositional usage.
• Article misuse or omission is frequent because Chinese has no articles.
• Verb tense and verb form errors occur often, as Chinese does not have inflected verb forms for tense.
• Word order errors happen because Chinese syntax differs fundamentally from English.
• Errors in auxiliary verbs such as omission of “be” occur frequently.
• Confusion of nouns and adjectives due to different usage patterns in Chinese and English.

These errors arise primarily from transfer effects of the learners’ native language, differences in grammar rules, and the complexity of English grammatical structures. Verb tense errors tend to decrease as learners advance, but syntactical errors related to sentence complexity become more prevalent at higher proficiency levels. Oral English errors often focus on prepositions and articles, while written errors highlight tense and verb forms. Teachers are advised to focus instruction on these challenging areas to improve learners’ accuracy. ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}

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