Analysis On German Students’ Errors In Chinese Word Order Acauisition

Recent years, as the "learning of Chinese" has been booming in the global range, more and more countries pay attention to Chinese study and teaching. At the same time, as the economic power of china grows day by day, more countries start to promote all kinds of Chinese learning programs. However, most current researches focus on teaching Chinese as a foreign language in countries like USA or countries in Asia, such as Japan, South-Korea, Thailand and Vietnam.As the international cooperation between Germany and China gets deeper each day, China has become one of the main economic partners for Germany. Since language is the tool for better communication, in Germany, learning Chinese is already welcomed by a lot schools and universities. Not only universities add it into its curriculum, more high schools and primary schools start to take Chinese into their study plans. In this way, researching on the development situation of Chinese language in Germany is very important.This article reviews the current development of Chinese as a foreign language in Germany, through gathering data from every aspect of information. By reading and studying a large amount of related grammar books in both Chinese and German, this article first discusses the difference and similarities on word order between Chinese and German. By conducting a survey among the students from the East Asia Institute of the University of Applied Science in Ludwigshafen, it aims to find out the basic information of Chinese learning, as well as students’problems on Chinese word order. By doing this, the survey can be used to support the study of this article. The article will also take use of the HSK database made by Beijing Language and Culture University.By analyzing all the word order mistakes made by German students and examining all the results and analysis, this article will find out the current problems and bring forward suggestible solutions for the problems.