Error Analysis of University Students’ Chinese Narrative Writing

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_208How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Error analysis; Narrative text; Discourse level; Coherence

Abstract

Discourse is the highest level in language hierarchy which has extremely complex problems. It was proven in narrative writing discourse text that is presented by students of Mandarin Education Program of State University of Surabaya in the year of 20../20… According to analysis results, there were various errors that occurred in the writing discourse text, such as errors while writing the letter; errors of particle usage; errors on word structures; and errors of diction. Errors had been found in the language structure aspect, including level structure of phrase, clause and sentence which were caused by the incorret use of structural element, the usage of inessential element, and the incorrect placement of structural element. In accordance with errors category, interference error is a case that mostly to happen, followed by developmental category, and the least is unique category with only two errors. Based on the emersion frequency, overgeneralization is the type of errors that has the highest frequency of emersion, followed by misorderings type of errors, whereas omissions and additions errors are two type of errors which has lowest frequency emergence. Due to the mentioned errors above, the overall writing discourse text became not cohesive and incoherent.

Copyright

© 2023 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Hans Y. T. Dasion
AU  - Muhammad F. Masrur
AU  - Subandi Subandi
AU  - Cicik Arista
AU  - Yogi B. Adimas
AU  - Rendy Aditya
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/19
TI  - Error Analysis of University Students’ Chinese Narrative Writing
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1920
EP  - 1933
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_208
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_208
ID  - Dasion2023
ER  -