An Analysis Of Ellipsis Errors In Foreign Students’ Compositions From The Perspective Of Register Theory

With the continuous improvement of China’s economic strength and international status,great attention has been paid to the development of national cultural soft power.As a medium of Chinese culture to the outside world,Especially the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language has received great attention from relevant departments of the state.On the one hand,with the support of the National and Sino-Foreign Language Cooperation Centers,the Confucius Institutes are located in various countries to promote and achieve cooperation in Chinese language teaching with the cooperation of various governments.On the other hand,driven by employment demand and interest,more and more foreign friends have joined the Chinese learning army and actively participated in HSK,expecting to achieve ideal results through hard study.However,most of the examinees often fail to get good grades,as shown by poor scores in reading and writing,especially in composition.Based on the abundant corpus of international students’ compositions in the global Chinese Interlanguage corpus,this paper selects texts with elliptical sentence errors and analyzes them from the perspective of register theory.The main research contents include the following aspects:Firstly,this paper introduces the research status of register theory at home and abroad,and mainly introduces the three variables that constitute register.Then it discusses the present situation of ellipsis research at home and abroad,focusing on the study of ellipsis error of international students based on TCSL.Secondly,through the collection and arrangement of relevant corpus,this paper discusses the types and frequency of improper use of Chinese elliptical sentences in foreign students’ compositions,which is directly reflected in the form of tables,and analyzes the main problems existing in the acquisition of Chinese elliptical sentences by foreign students.Again,combined with the register theory to analyze students in various elliptical sentence errors occurred in HSK composition,respectively from the register theory of language field,tenor and mode the three aspects of type,the analysis of Chinese elliptical sentence in a particular language filed,language tenor and language mode shows the characteristics and use of the way,to reveal the omitted using the causes of errors,It also points out the correct way to use elliptical sentences in Chinese.Finally,based on the current teaching situation of ellipsis sentences in Teaching of Chinese as a Second Language,starting from the register theory and focusing on the "three variables" of register--language field,tenor and mode,this paper puts forward some suggestions on the teaching of ellipsis sentences,so as to provide a new perspective for teachers of Chinese as a foreign language and contribute to Chinese teaching,...