Author(s)

Yuxian Du, Meilan Liu

Corresponding Author

Meilan Liu

Abstract

With the increasing international status of China, more and more foreign students are coming to China to study, so it is necessary for them to learn Chinese. However, even foreign students with high Chinese proficiency still have the feeling of “foreign accent and foreign tone” when speaking Chinese, which is inseparable from foreign students' mastery of Chinese pronunciation. Based on the phonetic problems in the process of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this paper chooses European and American students as research object, takes the form of listening records, and extensively collects some other survey materials for reference, in order to obtain more objective and accurate data results. Then the paper focuses on the analysis of the pronunciation problems of European and American students. Firstly, a simple understanding of Chinese pronunciation is made. After that, through the comparison of Chinese and foreign students' mother tongues, errors that easily occur to students are summarized. Finally, several specific and feasible teaching methods and techniques are put forward for foreign students' pronunciation errors. It is hoped that the above analysis and research can provide some help to the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language.

Keywords

Chinese phonetics; Error analysis; Teaching strategies