Author(s)

Zhaojie Peng and Min Zhao

Corresponding Author

Min Zhao

Abstract

Based on the perception experiment of Bangladeshi students in distinguishing and recognizing mandarin single-character tones, the perception ability of tones is investigated. The experimental results show that the perception ability of Bangladeshi students in mandarin single-character tones gradually increases with the increase of Chinese level, especially in advanced level. The order of difficulty for Bangladeshi students in perceiving mandarin single-character tones is rising tone > level tone > falling tone > falling-rising tone (">" means "more difficult"); There are many types of errors and it is easy to confuse level tone/rising tone and rising tone/falling-rising tone. On this basis, this paper puts forward some teaching suggestions on tone perception.

Keywords

Bangladeshi students studying abroad; Mandarin single-character tone; Distinguishing experiments; Identification experiment