Mandarin phonetic system for Chinese students of English.docVIP

Mandarin phonetic system for Chinese students of English [Abstract] Accurate pronunciation and intonation is not only the element to evaluate the effectiveness of oral communication but also the basic quality of a language learner. However, there are many pronunciation difficulties that have been encountered by Chinese students, resulting from the interference of their mother tongue-Mandarin. As Chinese and English belong to two different language families, they bear lots of differences in sound system as well as the similarities they share. So it is inevitable that students’ pronunciation is easily influenced by their mother tongue, leading to some common pronunciation errors. This paper explores the reasons for those common errors on the basis of negative language transfer by comparing the differences between Chinese and English sound system. Besides, it provides the teachers and the EFL learners some suggestions to eliminate the negative transfer to improve the students’ pronunciation. [Key Words] pronunciation; negative transfer; Mandarin; English; sound system; common errors Abstract voice clearance is the key to learning English, but also difficult. The correct standard English pronunciation, natural and dignified tone of voice is not only assess whether the importance of effective oral communication scale, but also as a language learner, one must possess the following qualities. However, the Chinese students in English pronunciation process is fraught with difficulties. This is because the Chinese language Mandarin and English belong to two different languages, in speech there is a big difference in the system at the same time, since the process of learning a second language in the language of widespread migration phenomenon, the students in pronunciation is vulnerable to them mother tongue, Mandarin voice system influence on the English pronunciation on some of the differences can not be identified, or the process of preferred pronunciation in Chi