Abstract:The studyattempts to research the distribution of causative construction in different corpora, including BNC and SWECCL. The study discusses the difference between the Chinese learners and native users in causative constructions, it can be learned that the Chinese students tend to use high frequency causatives to lead the periphrastic causative construction, and the main causes of this phenomenon are:1. the differences of English and Chinese language cultures in expression; 2. the understanding differences for "causative "for the different English and Chinese cultures. But the negative transference of mother tongue is the most main factor that affects the second language acquisition.