An Error-analysis for Vietnamese Students of Advanced Chinese Level in Use of Directive Complement

Through analyzing the compositions of Vietnamese students of advanced Chinese level, we selected 134 sentences with directional complement errors. These errors were divided into five categories: 1) over-use of directional complements; 2) confusion about different types of directional complements; 3) omission of directional complements; 4) confusion of directional complements with other complements; 5) confusion about directional complements and object sequences. The main reason for Vietnamese students' errors when using the directional complement is negative transfers from their mother tongue.