The Study On Chinese Initial Aquisition Errors And Teaching Strategies For Elementary Arab Students

At present, the cooperation of China and Arab countries in various fields has been further strengthened, more and more Arab students are starting to tearn Chinese. The students who came to China to study Chinese are increasing, But when the Arab students are learning Chinese pronunciation, especially in terms of the acquisition of Chinese initials, there are some more or less errors in their listening and pronunciation. To find the error types and sources of Arab students in terms of acquisition of Chinese initials, the author analyses and does research according to Linguistics, Psychology, and Second Language Acquisition theory through literature research, materials analysis, comparative analysis on the Arab students learning Chinese pronunciation errors.In order to find the errors of Arab students in terms of acquisition of Chinese initials, the author made a comparison on the consonant systems of the Chinese and Arabic first, then made a lot of phonetic experiments, analyzed the error types and sources according to the results of the experiments, and proposed some teaching strategies at last.From the perspective of phonetics, this research made a comparison on the consonant systems of the Chinese and Arabic, analyzed the characteristics of the consonants pronunciation between the two languages, and made a comparative analysis on the similarities and differences of the consonants pronunciation between the two languages to provide a theoretical support from the perspective of phonetics for the following errors analysis. From the perspective of experimental phonetics based on the learning period, this research made two experiments in listening and acoustic experiments, selected the appropriate experimenters, made appropriate experimental pronouncing tables, and finally collected the experimental data and made the collection, measurement and processing for the voice corpus experiment. When doing the acoustic experiments, the author used Gold Wave software to make the recordings of corpus, got a lot of real and effective experimental data. By comparing the data of the two experiments in listening and acoustic experiments and drew the curves of Arab students in terms of acquisition of Chinese initials. Then, the author made a comparative analysis of the pronouncing spectrum by using Praat software for the pronunciation audio of Chinese students and Arab students and identified the error problems of Arab students in listening and pronunciation. From the both of two aspects, by analyzing the results of experiments and acoustic experiments, the author found the error types of Arab students in terms of acquisition of Chinese initials. From the objective and subjective aspects, the author identified the sources of Arab students in terms of acquisition of Chinese initials. Objective factors include the negative transfer of native Arabic and the differences in consonants pronunciation of Chinese and Arabic; subjective factors came from both learners and teachers. For these error problems, the author proposed some effective teaching strategies in order to improve the pronunciation and communicating levels of Arab students.