Analysis of Chinese Animal Idioms Acquisition Bias and its Teaching Countermeasures Based on Chinese Mediated Corpus--native English Learners as an Example

Abstract

How to better master idioms, a crucial component of Chinese vocabulary, has become a hot issue of discussion in recent years. Animal idioms are intimately tied to human production and living. In order to properly analyze the errors, this article gathers a lot of data from the Chinese Mediated Language Corpus. In order to better understand the peculiarities of native English speakers’ acquisition of Chinese animal idioms, this research looks into the reasons why mistakes are made and suggests pedagogical guidelines and remedial techniques. We intend to contribute in a positive way to the improvement of foreigners’instruction of Chinese animal idioms.