A Survey On Misuse Of "了" By Students From Japan, Korea And Indonesia, Based On The HSK Dynamic Composition Corpus

“了” is the focal and difficult point of modern Chinese grammar, and is always a bottleneckof non-native Chinese learners. Based on the materials in HSK dynamic composition corpus,this paper aims to explore whether non-native Chinese learners from Japan, Korea andIndonesia would make errors when they use “了”, from the perspective of country-specific.How many types of misuse? Is there any rule for the types of misuse made by the threecountries’ overseas students? This paper aims to provide a new thought for the teachingChinese as a foreign language by answering former questions.Chapter one is the introduction. This part mainly presents the research origin, researchmethod and significance, and research standard of “了”. Then evaluate the research findingsof former.Chapter two explains the corpus, and gives a thorough explanation of corpus. Based on thestatistic analysis, this part divides the misuse of function word “了” by Chinese learners fromJapan, Korea and Indonesia, and aims to find the law and difference by comparing the errorrate.Chapter three explicits the reason of misuse and its characteristics.Chapter four is the resolution strategies based on the findings in former three chapters.Chapter five is the conclusion part, and makes an explanation of deficiencies in the thesis.