Research On Russian Students’ Acquisition Of Disyllabic Tones

In the process of the development of the teaching Chinese as a foreign language, thespeech has drawn more and more attention. Chinese four tones, as one of the most significantcharacteristics of the Chinese phonetics, are both important and difficult. The traditionalphonetic research is mainly carried out through the method of the test of auditory recognitionwhich based on the experiences of the researchers. The development of experimentalphonetics provides more scientific ways and more accurate data materials for speech research.This paper is dedicated to the study of elementary-intermediate Russian students’ Chinesedisyllable tone acquisition errors. By using the interlanguage theory, contrastive analysis,error analysis and theories and methods of experimental phonetics, this paper carries out theexperimental survey about Russian students’ disyllabic word tone acquisition.There are six parts in this thesis:The first part: Introduction. This part introduces the research background, researchsignificance of this paper and the theoretical basis, which including interlanguage theory,comparative analysis, error analysis and experimental phonetics.The second part: Current situation of the research. This part hackles the current situationof the research on both tone research and Russian student’s Chinese tone acquisition.The third part: The experimental design of Russian student’s disyllabic word toneacquisition. This part includes design the pronunciation vocabulary, select the speakers，record with the experimental software, acquire and process the data. It introduces the wholeexperiment design of Russian student’s disyllabic word tone acquisition situation research.Analysis sound files to obtain the data for the experiment by using the Mini-Speech Labsoftware.The fourth part: Russian student’s disyllabic word tone acquisition experimental dataanalysis. The analysis includes two aspects: length and pitch. According to the data, draw thelength data table and tone pitch curve, combine with the chart conduct a detailed analysis ofRussian students’ disyllable length and pitch of sixteen groups disyllables.The fifth part: Russian student’s disyllabic word tone acquisition errors analysis andteaching strategies. According to the experimental data analysis, summed up the Russianstudents length and pitch error. Explore the reasons of errors production: negative transfer ofmother language, the influence of the phonetic learning awareness, negative transfer ofknowledge of the target language, the control ability of the vocal cords, the mutual influenceof the syllable, and the influence of the learning environment. And propose teaching strategies: add the teaching of tones and accent, clear tones characteristics, change phonetics value ofthird tone teaching to2-1-3, use prolong-pronunciation method, hand gesture assistedteaching method, use music to assist teaching, treat errors correctly.The sixth part: Conclusion. Summarize the conclusion of the experimental in researchinstitute, the innovation points and deficiencies of this thesis.