Error analysis in the interlanguage of Sino-speaking learners

Abstract

 In the learning of Spanish as a foreign language, it is common to see Chinese students making errors that are mostly influenced by their mother tongue (Chinese) or by the language they have mastered, and even the errors made by the learners change at different stages of the learning process. This is because learners produce an independent language system -interlanguage - in the process of foreign language learning. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the common errors in interlanguage made by Chinese students when learning Spanish, based on the concept and characteristics of intermediary language and the use of the Spanish verb ir.