@article{ART003308193},
author={Chen, HuanChang},
title={An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2026},
number={79},
pages={155-184},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006}
TY - JOUR
AU - Chen, HuanChang
TI - An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 79
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 155
EP - 184
SN - 1738-0502
AB - This study investigates errors in the use of jingguo (經過) produced by learners of Chinese as a second language based on the HSK writing corpus, examining their cognitive–semantic motivations. The results show that such errors are systematic rather than incidental, with confusion between jingguo and tongguo (通過) emerging as the most prominent type: learners tend to use jingguo in contexts requiring means or conditions for result attainment, and tongguo in contexts describing path progression or temporal processes. To account for these patterns, this study adopts Talmy’s Motion Event Framework and Levinson’s theory of Frames of Reference, revealing that jingguo encodes a process-oriented meaning foregrounding paths and temporal progression, whereas tongguo conveys a result-oriented meaning highlighting goal attainment through means mediation or threshold crossing. The findings suggest that learners’ confusion stems not from a simple lack of lexical knowledge, but from a cognitive conflation of path-based and means-based event representations, and thus offer pedagogical implications for Chinese vocabulary instruction emphasizing event-structure distinctions.
KW - jingguo;tongguo;HSK writing corpus;second language acquisition;cognitive semantics;error analysis
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
ER -
Chen, HuanChang. (2026). An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 79, 155-184.
Chen, HuanChang. 2026, "An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.79, pp.155-184. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang "An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 79 pp.155-184 (2026) : 155.
Chen, HuanChang. An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu. 2026; 79 : 155-184. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang. "An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.79(2026) : 155-184.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang. An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 79, 155-184. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang. An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2026; 79 155-184. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang. An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu. 2026; 79 : 155-184. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
Chen, HuanChang. "An Error Analysis of Learners’Use of Jingguo (‘經過’) in the HSK Writing Corpu" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.79(2026) : 155-184.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..79.006
