The Effect Of Pronunciation Practice Of Shadowing With Visualization Of Intonation

In Japanese language education for non-Japanese learners, although the importance of pronunciation has been pointed out, it is true that the effective education method has not been determined. In addition, some people have realized that smooth and natural pronunciation is closely related with rhythm guidance. However, there are only few schools bring rhythm guidance into classes.Japanese is an agglutinative mora-timed language with a lexically significant pitch accent. Its rhythm and sound are important for pitch control. Therefore, the comparison of Japanese learners and Japanese (native speakers) pitch pattern, the qualitative analysis of differences between the two groups, and the analysis results are very necessary for pitch guidance.Recently, in some Japanese education, shadowing has been gradually used. The effectiveness of pronunciation training method for rhythm guidance has been confirmed by a large number of experiments. In phonetics field, we can use stereo audio analysis software to analyze and study the learners and Japanese sound. This approach also gives another possible way in another way.The study objects are sophomore students who have one-year Japanese learning experience. One-month autonomous shadowing practice after class and comparison chart of pitch contour with standard pronunciation, are used to confirm the superposition of these two pronunciation training effect and the students’cognition of Japanese overall rhythm.Through the study, we found that after the pronunciation training, the shape of pitch contour has been near the one of Japanese, and the pitch decreasing at the end of the text became slowing down rather than rapid decline. In the evaluation of whether students’pronunciation is natural or not by Japanese, the number of "very natural" and "natural" has increased after training. However, pronunciation problems still exist after the training.