英语语音教学中的负迁移现象解析
毕业论文关键词:母语;语音教学;负迁移;中国英语学习者
Abstract Chinese learners of English lack real language learning environment, and are usually influenced deeply by Chinese thinking and expressing habits. They often transplant the characteristics of Chinese into the English learning, which leads to the phenomenon of negative transfer of mother tongue. The phonetics is one of the most serious aspects influenced by the native language. The voice is the carrier of language, which plays a vital role in people’s communication. The abnormal pronunciation will affect people’s normal communication. This paper applies example analysis to summarize the mistakes Chinese learners of English often make in the light and voiced consonants, stress, sound length, vowels and accent etc. These mistakes are usually due to the negative transfer of Chinese. The author puts forward that students can overcome the dialect and some difficult phonemes by strengthening training and increasing the pure voice input and pronunciation. Finally, the thesis concludes that the contrastive study between English and Chinese phonetics can promote the teaching of English phonetics and help students overcome the negative transfer of mother tongue.
Key words: mother tongue; phonetics teaching; negative transfer; Chinese learners of English
Contents
摘 要..i
Abstract...ii
I. Introduction..1
II. The Standard Pronunciation of English and Chinese....1
2.1 Received Pronunciation of English......1
2.2 Standard Chinese Pronunciation...2
2.3 The Importance of Phonetic Teaching....3
III. The Negative Transfer of Chinese in Learning English Phonetic.....4
3.1 The Light and Voiced Consonants. ......4
3.2 Stress Changes...............................5
3.3 The Length of the Sound Changes....6
3.4 Vowels..7
3.5 Accent...7
IV. Countermeasures against the Negative Transfer of Phonetics ...8
4.1 Overcoming the Difficult Phonemes....8
4.2 Overcoming the Dialect....9
4.3 Overcoming Incomplete Corresponding Phonemes.....9
V. Conclusion10
Bibliography.12
Acknowledgements.13
On the Negative Transfer in English Phonetics Teaching
I. Introduction
In recent years, communication between China and most of western countries has become more and more frequent．English is more and more important in our daily life．Scholars around the world including Chinese scholars have carried on a large number of researches in foreign language teaching and learning．However, there is lack of attention to pronunciation. Pronunciation in the English teaching often receives unsatisfactory result．It is quite necessary to explore some efficient approaches to conduct teaching of pronunciation. In order to understand other people’s words and to make someone understand easily and exactly, students must pronounce the speech sounds and sentences in that language intelligibly. The more easily we speak English, the more rapidly we can understand each other and be understood. The reasons are as follows:
Firstly, language is the basic of the communication. Spoken language as the instrument of society is the most important and convenient way of communication and coordinating activities．