The Sentence Rearrangement Errors in HSK Level 5 of Third-Year Chinese Major Students in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkhla University
Keywords:
Error Analysis, Causes of Errors, HSK level 5, Sentence RearrangementAbstract
The aim of this study was to examine the sentence rearrangement errors of 52 third-year Chinese major students in the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkhla University, during the 2020 academic year as well as to identify the underlying causes of these errors. To accomplish these objectives, their writing responses to the 16 questions in the HSK level 5 exam were analyzed based on criteria including syntax and semantic relationships, logical reasoning, and Chinese character writing skills.
The findings showed that the students faced challenges in four areas, including word order at both (1) the phrase and (2) the sentence levels, (3) logical reasoning, and (4) stroke order and stroke count when writing Chinese characters. Among these, the word order of 把（ba-sentence）was the most frequently identified issue. Additionally, the three causes of the challenges were discovered as follows: (1) Inadequacy of understanding target language grammar which was the most commonly reported cause, (2) L1 negative transfer, (3) unreasonable meaning, and (4) irrelevant Chinese characters in the questions.
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