Listening And Pronunciation Test And Analysis Of Chinese Tone Errors On Peru Chinese Learners

Chinese tone teaching is one of the most difficult part in TeachingChinese as a Second Language (TCASL). Many Chinese mandarin learners makeerrors on the tones and it is difficult to be fixed. There are some thesisand essays on error analysis in TCASL field. Most studies were researchfor foreign students in China, using methods of judging and describingby the testers. On contrary, less studies used acoustic methods oncollecting, analyzing data and research quantitatively. With one yearexperience in teaching Chinese in Confucius College of PontificalCatholic University of Peru, the author collected first-hand informationfor the study, used the theory of comparative analysis, error analysistheory, interlanguage theory and tone pattern theory, compared Chineseand Spanish in pronunciation, especially on suprasegmental phonemes. Theauthor also made a survey and listening/pronunciation tests in localChinese learners. With the acoustic data, the author used Praat, AdobeAudition and MS Excel for statistical and quantitative analysis and tryto discern from two aspects of the data to find out the common errors onlearning Chinese Mandarin tone, the reason, the connection between thelistening error and speaking error and the count measure. The thesisfinally revealed that Hinata and Sonavox confusion, narrower pitch domain,shorter tone length is the common errors of the Spanish-speaking ChineseMandarin learners in Peru.