| With the development and deepening relations between China and Thailand,along with Thailand joining three other countries (China, Korea and Japan)in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), these actions have lead the Chinese language into becoming a required course as a result. The popularity of learning Chinese continues to rise in Thailand, and Chinese has become an important foreign language,which means that many schools have opened Chinese language courses. Thailand puts great emphasis on the importance of teaching of the Chinese language, and the bars for those who learn Chinese are being raised higher and higher. Through an experimental analysis and theoretical research, speech and pronunciation has occured to be the second most important part of language learning, as well as one of the primary core problems.In Chinese teaching, we can find that the accuracy of pronunciation of the Chinese language among Thai students are far too lacking to be compared with standard Chinese pronunciation. This is due to the fact that the main problems of Chinese learning in Thailand is heavily influenced by the sounds and speech of the mother tongue, and many local Chinese teachers utilizes the Thai alphabet to mark and sound out the Chinese pronunciation, which is doing more harm than good in the process of learning the Chinese language.In addition, one of the reasons why Thai students and their Chinese pronunciation is not comparable to the standard Chinese dialect is due to the fact that the Thai language is affected by the change of the length of the sound, the length of the sound in the Thai phonetics, and vowels. For Thai learners, pronunciation and the length and drawn out sounds are the most easily overlooked and error prone areas. Because there are no long or short vowels in the Chinese language, many Thai learners are heavily influenced by the learner's tendency to rely on pronunciation rules of their mother tongue; this is also an area that needs research and correction. |
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