The Approach Of Teaching Chinese Phonetics For Thai Students

This thesis based on second language acquisition theory, will provide one easy and workable method of teaching phonetics for Thai students.The thesis gives the summary of the commons and differences between Chinese and Thai language in consonants, vowels, tones and syllables. After that the thesis using the theory of error analysis to research the acquired speech samples of Thai students. Through the error analyses, the thesis assesses the difficulty degree of Acquisition in initials, finals and tones. With the reference of "Audio Lingual Method" and "Direct Method", and the difficulty levels sequence, the article put Chinese initials, finals and tones to different groups, categorizing links, distinguishing contrast. The thesis will put forward one method of Chinese phonetics teaching comprehensive using the teaching approach of listening and speaking, demonstration, explanation, distinguishing and syllable training and so on.