An Experimental Study On The Tuning Of Chinese Two - Syllable Words In Thai Middle School Students

Chinese is a tone language, tone of voice is an important factor of Chinese speech, with different meanings. The Chinese foreign students learning Chinese tone is the difficulty. Thai and Chinese belong to a tone language, but there are many differences in pronunciation, for Thailand students Chinese tones acquisition is not simple. Thailand students exist many errors in the two syllable word tone, tone is mainly reflected in the domain and type.At present, Chinese scholars paid more attention on Chinese phonetic acquisition of overseas students, but students in Thailand tone acquisition less attention, research content, research methods are relatively limited. Research on middle school students of Thailand tone acquisition is less and less, the lack of systematic and comprehensive analysis of the tone errors. As a volunteer,2014 Chinese teachers, Chinese teaching in Thailand has provided an opportunity for the tone acquisition of middle school students in Thailand.Based on the primary stage of Thailand middle school students as the research object, carried out two phonetic experiment two syllable words of Chinese tone acquisition as the research content, the experiment was performed in the author’s Selaphumpittayakom School in Roi Et, Thailand. The first experiment is a test tone perception test, the number is 20 people, mainly uses the identification marking method, the students study Chinese tone perception and discrimination. The test is a single syllabic words and two syllable words, in order to compare. The second experiment is double syllable tone’s pronunciation test, selected two Thailand male and female students from a representative of the students in the experiment, and compared from where I am the Yangzhou University College of Arts from two Chinese male and female students and high school students in Thailand, Through the professional voice analysis software pronunciation materials on subjects of data statistics and analysis, reveals differences in the Thai students Chinese pronunciation characteristics and the Thai pronunciation. Thailand middle school students Chinese tones and pronunciation and tone pronunciation in thailand. Through two experiments, summarized the main form of disyllabic words in Thailand middle school students acquisition of Chinese tones error. The use of Interlanguage and error analysis theory, from the negative transfer of mother tongue, the interference of the target language, the learning strategies of students and teachers teaching misleading the four aspects of the error sources were analyzed, revealing the cause of internal and external factors of errors. Combined with my teaching practice in Thailand, applying relevant knowledge of second language teaching, according to the Thailand high school students acquisition of Chinese tones in the process of the problems, and puts forward some effective teaching strategies to help students reduce errors, improve the teaching quality of tone. Include:the importance of teaching Chinese tones of voice of China;Highlight the tone pronunciation skills training; strengthen the tone range; in the speech stream to correct the tone errors.