An Analysis Of Errors Made By Chinese And English Students In Chinese And Japanese

Pause is a very important part of rhythm in Chinese, it’s not only a physically constraint, but also a important way of language performance and auditory comprehension. To learn English well is a vital thing to foreign students which decided they can speak fluent Chinese without any strange accent. But since a long time, pause as a represent by rhythm education has always been ignored, and the related research is also deficiency. Foreign students can not use pause very well, too. This paper based on teaching Chinese as a foreign language to research the acquisition ability of pause learning by British and America aboard students. This paper chooses some typical sentences as experiment corpus, and uses experimental phonetics as research means, meanwhile uses some professional software such as Mini speech lab and Cool edit to analysis experiment’s result. We also make acoustic study of the records, and then compared the British and American aboard students’ reading records with Chinese native speakers reading records. According to the experiments result, British and American students pause bias mainly performance on three aspects, those are the frequency of pause, the position of pause, and the time of pause, especially in the ambiguous sentences. The causes of the bias are mainly because of linguistic transference, lack of relevant knowledge, textbook writing and teaching methods defects. Finally, according to those bias and their reasons, we provides some teaching advices, for example cultivate foreign students pause awareness, pay attention to textbook’s choice, and reinforce the pause teaching. We hope that this paper can provide some useful advices to make teaching Chinese as a foreign language education become better and better.