The Character And Error Analysis Of Punctuation Mark Used By Foreign Students Of Studying Chinese As L2

Being the important part of written language, punctuation mark is also the important content of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. This paper investigates fifty articles by foreign students of elementary level about the use of punctuation mark, inspects some main characteristics on how they learn Chinese punctuation mark and analyzes the using features of punctuation mark in Chinese textbooks as L2. Based on those, this paper summarizes three characteristics of using punctuation mark by foreign students of elementary level: first, punctuation used is limited to seven or eight kinds; second, the functions of each punctuation are mostly single; third, there are many errors in their articles. At the same time, this paper makes an inquiry into the causes and types about errors of punctuation's writing appearance, punctuation's writing pattern and punctuation's using functions. At last, this paper makes some suggestions about how to improve the teaching method of punctuation to foreign students studying elementary Chinese as L2.