Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 139

When Romanian students create the Chinese sentences, they usually first think about
how to say it in Romanian or other languages they know, but mainly the way how the native
language functions, that is the psychological process when learning a new language, the last
example above showed us very well how this psychological process occurs. However, this is
also how the negative transfer occurs.
(3) Wrong location for the time adverbial
In Romanian or English, we usually put the time adverbial at the end of the sentence; for
example, I get up at seven o’clock. / Mă trezesc la ora șapte. But in Chinese, we rarely put the
time adverbial at the end of the sentences. If we look at several sentences made by the
Romanian students, after the comparison between Chinese and Romanian structure, we would
understand why they made the mistake.
Chinese Romanian
Wrong Chinese sentences
because of negative transfer
Wŏ bā diăn chī Eu mănânc micul dejun Wŏ chī zăofàn bā diăn.
zăofàn.
la ora opt.
I, eat, breakfast, at eight
I, eight, o’clock, eat, I, eat, breakfast, at eight o’clock
breakfast
o’clock
Wŏ zăoshang jiǔ diăn
yŏu Hànyǔ kè.
I,
morning,
nine
o’clock, have, Chinese,
class
Wŏ shí diăn shuìjiào.
I, ten, o’clock, sleep
Tā
míngtiān
qù
Bĕijīng.
he,
tomorrow,
go,
Beijing
Nǐmen 3 diăn yŏu kè.
you, 3 o’clock, have,
classes Eu am ore de chineză la Wŏ yŏu Hànyǔ kè zăoshang jiǔ
ora nouă dimineața.
diăn.
I, have, Chinese class, at I,
have,
Chinese,
class,
nine o’clock
morning, nine o’clock
Eu dorm la ora zece.
I, sleep, at ten o’clock
El merge la Beijing
mâine.
he, go, to, Beijing,
tomorrow
Voi aveți ore la ora 3.
You, have, classes, at 3
o’clock
Wŏ shuìjiào shí diăn.
I, sleep, ten o’clock
Tā qù Bĕijīng míngtiān.
he, go, Beijing, tomorrow
Nǐmen yŏu kè 3 diăn.
you, , have, classes,3 o’clock
(4) Wrong location for the nouns of locality
In Romanian, we usually put the nouns of locality in front of the word which indicates the
place, while in Chinese we usually put the nouns of locality after the word which indicates the
places. Here are the sentences made by the Romanian students because of the negative
language transfer.
Chinese
Romanian
Wrong Chinese sentences
because of negative transfer
Yínháng zài shūdiàn Banca este în partea de Yínháng zài dōngbian shūdiàn.
dōngbian.
est a librăriei.
the bank, is located, east part,
the bank, is located, the bank, is, at the east bookstore
bookstore, east part
part, bookstore
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