An Empirical Research on Errors for Chinese Character Writing in the Field of Chinese as a Foreign Language

Based on the statistics of 175 articles about Chinese character written from 1990 to 2016, this paper elaborates the research situation of errors of Chinese character writing from determining the object of study, collecting corpus, identifying errors, describing errors, evaluating errors and interpreting errors on basis of error analysis put forward by Corder in 1974. Through reflecting on past research, this paper got conclusions as followed: The research in future should cover three aspects: a) more multivariate choices on participants, b) considerate naturalness and authenticity, the way that language acquirement and the convenience for statistics when collecting corpus, c) comprehensively considerate two standards including the frequency for using and whether corrected by learners themselves, and identify errors on individual and group level respectively and so on.