The Analysis Of Errors On Native-english-speaking Students’ Using Chinese Punctuation

By teaching Chinese as a foreign language in class, I found the students who use the punctuation in Chinese are very casual, and did not use the proper punctuation in Chinese. Punctuation, as an integral part of written language, play an important role in Chinese written language. Improper use of in Chinese and may easily give rise to the misunderstanding or even make a joke. Therefore, we cannot ignore the use of punctuation in Chinese writing.According to the teaching practice and a large number of corpus of native English speakers, when students writing in Chinese,we found a large numbers of punctuation errors. We,Chinese teaching workers, must pay attention to this phenomenon of using punctuation errors. Therefore, realizing the errors and solve it, is of great significance on the development of Chinese language teaching. At present, the domestic study of punctuation can be roughly divided into ontology research, contrast research, and related research of the three foreign teaching.There is no research about Chinese punctuation on abroad, nor the research about how English-speaking foreign students learn Chinese punctuation marks.This article reviewed the literature of Chinese and foreign punctuation,reviewed and summarized the domestic and foreign researchers.They have written how foreigners using Chinese punctuation.I have studied the law of the People’s Republic of China National Standard Punctuation Usage. And on this basis of English and Chinese punctuation system,I have made a comparison between the form and function. Searching the HSK dynamic composition corpus, we can found some using errors in the carding, analysis and induction, and summarized two types of errors, the form of writing errors and functional errors, and deeply analyzed their causes.