Observation And Analysis On The Tone Of Indonesian Students

With the recent development of relationship between Indonesia and China, more and more people in Indonesia start to study Chinese. They realize that Chinese language has become one of the important languages in the world that plays a major role in people's life. However, Indonesian students find it hard to master the fundamental Chinese intonation features, especially the Chinese tones.As a Chinese teacher, the author observed Chinese intonations of Indonesian students at Cerdas Bangsa College. By using questionnaires and interviews, the author examined how Indonesian students learn intonation, features, particularly the tones. First of all, 58 copies of the questionnaires were sent out, the actual return was 58, and each of the questionnaires involved 16 questions. The Questions were about the background and circumstances of the object. In order to have a better understanding of the learning situation, interviews were conducted.After the analysis, the author came to understand more of the difficulties of teaching Chinese Intonations. I realized that the difficulty in learning Chinese tones in Indonesia is caused by many factors that not conducive to for the students to learn Chinese intonation well, and these factors include: 1) Indonesian students do not have the habit of using tones because Indonesian language is a non-tonal language; 2) Indonesian students do not often practice with regard to Chinese tones, and exercise intensity is not high; 3) qualified Chinese language teachers are still very rare, and so on. At the end of the dissertation, the author, put forward some suggestions for teaching Chinese tones to Indonesian students.