Error Analysis Of Students’ Compositions

During the teaching process, we noticed that the development of foreign students’ language skills was not balanced at all, and writing was the worst part mostly. Even when the students’ listening and speaking skills are at a very high level and can talk with Chinese easily, they still make a lot mistakes in their writing works. To solve this problem, the author did some researches through error analysis, questionnaires, classroom observation and teachers’ interview methods. All these studies are made in senior-level class of College of International Education, Lanzhou University of Technology, and aim at finding the problems which exist in the class of Chinese-Writing Teaching in TCFL and the corresponding solving methods to these problems.This thesis is carried out in the following five parts. The first part is the introduction to the raise of the issue, current state of the study and its object, contents, methods, significance and etc.the second part is the statistics and classification of the errors in students’ compositions. In the third part, the author summary the result of questionnaires, classroom observation and teachers’ interview and analyze all data. The forth part is made on the basis of part 2 and part 3, proposes the reasons of students’ errors. And the final part discusses the significance of studies made above in classroom teaching and what can it carries to Chinese-Writing Teaching in TCFL.