Study Of Junior Stage Indonesian Students' Difficulties In Acquiring Mandarin Phonetics

Modern mandarin phonetic acquisition has been an important part of the Chinese as a foreign language teaching and acquisition. The pronunciation of words is the top priority of the phonetics acquisition process. In the acquisition process, the learners' pronunciation bias is from the migration of the mother tongue.This thesis is the result of my phonetics input and output investigating of Indonesian students who are in Chinese junior stage. The purpose of this thesis is to identify the difficulties of phonetics acquisition of Indonesian students who are in Chinese junior stage. The subjects of this thesis are divided into the indigenous people of Indonesia and Indonesian Chinese. In this thesis we contrast the similarities and differences between the indigenous people of Indonesia and Indonesian Chinese phonetics bias. According to the usual teaching and phonetics investigating, we found that Indonesian indigenous people and Chinese Indonesian on the speed of acquisition of the pronunciation is slightly different, the Chinese Indonesian is relatively faster. The bias types of Chinese Indonesian are less than Indonesian indigenous peoples, and bias rate is lower than Indonesian indigenous peoples'. But overall, the Chinese Indonesian don't have obvious advantage of phonetics, which may be Chinese language had been banned for many years in Indonesia, and the Chinese Indonesian have lost learning environment of the mother language. According to the phonetics investigating, the conclusions are as follows:1. On Segment level, the main analysis is about bias of Indonesia students learn mandarin initials and finals. The bias types of Chinese Indonesian are less than Indonesian indigenous peoples, and bias rate is lower than Indonesian indigenous peoples'. But overall, the Chinese Indonesian don't have obvious advantage of phonetics. It includes initial problems, such as b[p],p[p'],d[t],t[t'],g[k],k[k'], z[ts],c[ts'],s[s],zh[ts],ch[ts'],sh[s],j[t(?)],q[t(?)'],x[(?)] and r[z]. And it also includes finals problems such as e[(?)],[(?)],i[(?)],moddulation,er[(?)],ie[i(?)],ian[i(?)n],iou[i(?)u], uei[uei],uen[u(?)n].2. On Segment level, the main analysis is about bias of Indonesia students learn tones. The order of tones acquisition of Indonesian indigenous people and Chinese Indonesian is1st tone>4th tone>3rd tone>2nd tone.The bias of tone value is more serious than the bias of type of tone.The bias of tone length is that the4th tone is too short, which read into a rapid decline in short tone.The bias is mainly concentrated in the2nd tone in reading test of singal characters tones and listening test of two characters group tones.In this thesis, according to the actual teaching and phonetics investigating, I proposed teaching strategies in the class for Indonesian students who are in Chinese junior stage how to learn initials, finals and tones of Mandarin.