Reduplication is a frequent phenomenon in Chinese language. It is also one of the difficulties in teaching Chinese as a second language.This thesis paper analyzes the reduplication of Chinese terms in accordance to the acquisition of foreign students as well as proposes suggestions for teaching, studying and creating teaching materials for Chinese as a foreign language.The introduction first gives a summary of reduplication within the Chinese language, specifically focused on the research of reduplication errors. The following section introduces research on the fundamental theories, including the theory of comparative analysis and theory of error analysis.The next section introduces the research methods used in this paper and specification of the material that was analyzed.Chapter I gives classification and statistics of all reduplication errors found in HSK Dynamic Composition Corpus, first dividing them by parts of speech and further by types of errors. For instance verbs reduplication errors divide further to four subcategories:'Verbs that should be, but were not reduplicated','Verbs that should not be, but were duplicated','Verbs duplication patter errors'and'verbs reduplication mixed errors'.Chapter II analyzes causes of different types of reduplication errors by applying Interlanguage theory and error analysis theory.Chapter III summarizes the results of reduplication errors causes analysis and proposes teaching strategies.Conclusion section summarizes the results of the research.Author put his best effort into making the research useful and hopes it can become a reference material in teaching Chinese. |