中学生英语语音习惯调查和思考.pdf

Abstract With the development ofthe unity ofthe global economy，English，as all international language，is playing a more and more important role nowadays．English teaching has ever been valued in our country．English teaching in our country officially began with Jingshi Tongwen Guan that Was set up by Qing Dynasty in 1 862．The first major established in Tongwen Guan was the course of English．It Was regulated by the government of Qing Dynasty in 1903 that English is a required course and one optional course must be taken from among Russian，French，German and Japanese．Foreign literature courses were also established in colleges．And probably,English teaching in our country originated from Acoustics in English Literature．Today,English is taught in middie schools，primary schools and even in kindergartens in some region$．English pronunciation teaching is considered to be the first most important in English teaching． During the process of English teaching，phoneticians and Eng]Iish teachers have made a study of ways to teach English pronunciation and SO a lot of contributions have been made．However,students’English pronunciation will always see a sharp rebound because they havent developed a good English pronunciation habit or they havent had a good knowledge ofEnglish pronunciation． English pronunciation habits refer to the ones developed by English native speakers while they speak Standard English(GB and GA)．In order to improve English pronunciation teaching in high schools，explore strategies for getting rid of bad English pronunciation habits and help students form good English pronunciation habits，the author has launched an investigation into English pronunciation habits of senior high school students by means ofrandom sampling,answering questionnaires and observation． In the light of the investigation，the author has found out that the examinees have problems with vowels，consonant clusters，word pronunciation，unstressed forms， intonations，sentence stresses，juncture，rhythem，se