A Research on Chinese Pronunciation Teaching as a Foreign Language Based on a Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Pronunciation_英语论文

摘要

随着中国经济的飞速发展，国际地位的稳步提高，汉语学习热潮很快席卷全球。汉语是世界上使用人数最多的语言,汉字是复杂的象形文字，形成历史久远，是名副其实的世界上最难学习的语言之一。汉语语音不管是对中国人还是对非汉语为母语人士，掌握其发音都有一定难度。汉语中存在很多多音字多义字，发音方法和技巧也很特殊。汉语对音调重视，强调音韵美，具有独特的魅力。这些特征这也正是外国汉语学习者最难掌握的的部分之一。外籍人士学习汉语的目的主要是方便用汉语学习交流和沟通，因此语音教学在对外汉语教学中非常重要。

本文针对在华学习汉语的以英语为母语的留学生为研究对象, 基于比对英汉两种语言在语言特音上的相似点和不同点，梳理学习汉语过程中因差异带来的语音学习障碍，讨论外汉语语音教学中帮助学习者客服这些障碍和困难的相关教学方法。

关键词：英汉语音特点 英汉语音对比分析 英汉语音学习困难 教学方法

Abstract

With the rapid development of economy, the international status of China has raised steadily, with the learning of Chinese boom sweeping the whole world. Chinese is a complicated pictograph language with a long-established history that is used by most population in the world. Chinese truly is one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. There are a great number of homophones and polysemous words in Chinese and also some of the pronunciations are special and demanding for non-native speakers to utter. Chinese, with an emphasis on tone and its musical value, makes it a language of unique charms. But this is just one of the most difficult parts for foreign learners. The main purpose of foreigners to learn Chinese is to facilitate their communication, in more cases the oral communication. Therefore, pronunciation teaching is very important in the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.

This paper aims to take, as the subjects, those native English speakers who are learning Chinese in China, by making a comparison between English and Chinese in terms of the similarities and differences of the pronunciations of both languages, to find out the obstacles caused by these differences in the learning process of Chinese pronunciation, and to discuss the methods for Chinese pronunciation teaching to help learners overcome these obstacles and difficulties. 

Key words: Characteristics of Chinese and English Pronunciation; Difficulties of in learning Chinese and English pronunciation; Teaching Strategies

Contents

1. Introduction

1.1   Background of the Research.5

1.2   Organization of the Paper6

2. A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese Pronunciation and English Pronunciation

2.1    Characteristics of Chinese and English Pronunciation6

2.1.1 Characteristics of Chinese Pronunciation 6

2.1.2 Characteristics of English Pronunciation .8

2.2    Differences between Chinese and English Pronunciations and Major Difficulties in Learning.9

3. Methods in Chinese Pronunciation Teaching for Native English Speakers

3.1   Major Problems with Chinese Pronunciation Teaching.11

3.2   Solutions to the Teaching Problems 13

4. Conclusion.15

Bibliography16

Acknowledgments18