Study On The Verbs That Indicate The Motion Of Mouth In HSK And Teaching Chinese As A Foreign Language

HSK is an international standard Chinese proficiency test, Chinese learner can measure their Chinese level through the exam. While learning a second language,vocabulary learning is the most basic, Chinese is no exception. Chinese is lack of strict changes in the form and the position of verbs in the sentence is flexible, verbs have a variety of meanings and syntactic relationship. The verbs that indicate the motion of mouth are in the use of high frequency, and closely related with people’s daily life, Therefore, teaching Chinese as a foreign language of verbs that indicate the motion of “mouth”(VM for short) in HSK is particularly important.This paper determines the research scope summarizes the monosyllabic and disyllabic of VM in HSK, categorizes them as Diet, Speech, Breath, Others, analyzes the errors in the use from Chinese learners by using the HSK dynamic composition corpus, the main types of error are omission, substitute error, incorrectly added, mixed and wrong sequence. The negative transfer of mother tongue and target language are the major reasons of errors, and learning strategies and communicative strategies also have influence on the errors. Therefore, we should be close to life, pay attention to different levels and strengthen the comparison of Chinese and foreign language in teaching. At the same time, we should use various vocabulary teaching methods such as direct method, situational method and others, pay attention to the teaching difficulties in pronunciation, grammar, Chinese characters and culture, promote VM in HSK to achieve better teaching results.