Teaching Methods And Research Of Chinese Tones For Thai Vocational High School Students

Tone has been a foreign language teaching is important and difficult for almost Chinese language learners, learning Chinese tones is the greatest difficulty, and this difficulty almost throughout the entire learning process.Led shift due to the impact of negative language, non-native speakers of Chinese learners there is often intractable errors in pronunciation, learners from different countries of bias due to the varies of their mother tongues, while speaking in a tone language learners and non-native speakers of a tone language learners is even more have their own distinctive features.English is the most widely used non-tonal languages, with English-speaking students in learning Mandarin tones, often suffer interference from English intonation, most clearly reflects the fact that syntactic structure is a two-syllable word.English pitch and tone were significantly related to weight, so Chinese soaring tune in English-speaking countries such as the second tone will be the students’understanding of stress, while the English syllable is usually very low light, so the whispered tone on sound easily understood English speakers light reading.The Thai and Chinese Mandarin is the same as a typical tone language.Thai students pronunciation have a very significant feature, Chinese has four tones, while Thai there are five tones, adjusting the values are:[33],[21],[45],[14],[41].So, in terms of tone for Thai students are not so difficult to understand, even so, to send a good, fat tones of Mandarin accurate, it is not an easy task.Chinese and Thai has many different tones, such as Mandarin pitch range is relatively large, Thai pitch range is relatively small, so the Chinese listening is more sonorous, resounding, while Thai appear to be more soft-spoken, gentle melody.In recent years, Thai students become South Korea, Japan to study in China after the largest number of groups, their Chinese learning rule should arouse our attention.Existing teaching model for Thai Chinese tones certain lack of hierarchy and systematic, there are many drawbacks.Such as Thailand Chinese teaching materials for students to use the description tones are too simple, is often the first of the four tones of Chinese listed, then the difference significance for Chinese tones to simple instructions, and even Thai tone to mark Chinese tones, Thai students In the absence of Chinese tones cognitive system as a whole in the case, the book is very easy to be misled by relying solely on mechanical repetition and imitation of the teacher’s pronunciation, and can not have a good grasp of accurate pronunciation in Chinese tones, there is intractable errors in pronunciation problem.Weak tone of teaching, to some extent reflects the tone of the weak.This paper focuses on the teaching of vocational high school students, for example in Thailand, the first description of intonation teaching vocational students in Thailand characteristic tonal errors through actual classroom teaching and experimental data on the Thai pronunciation of Chinese Tones vocational students to analyze the situation of Errors, and then explore the foreign language teaching especially for Thai tone method, presented to Thailand Teaching Chinese Tones teaching suggestions and strategies.Hopefully, this article analyzed and summarized to help Thai learners to master Chinese tones correctly, help to improve teaching Chinese tones for Thailand practical effect.