Quantitative Analysis Of The Tonal Teaching Materials Of Road To Success·Threshold

With the rapid development of overseas Mandarin education,textbook compilation,as an important aspect,has been paid more and more attention to.The pronunciation acquisition should be the first step for the second language learners in any foreign language.Tone,which is the core of Chinese pronunciation,has usually been a difficult task for a large number of Chinese as second language learners with zero basic.On the study of tones,previous researchers preferred using experimental methods to study the tone errors caused by a single country's students so as to study the difficulties in tonal acquisition.On this basis,researchers could adjust teaching orders in terms of different difficulties level of tonal learning.The paper will be based on both previous studies and the textbook of Road to Success·Threshold,and conduct a quantitative analysis to the corpus of tonal teaching.The main body of this paper is divided into nine chapters.The first chapter is the introduction,which introduces the reason,the theoretical foundation,the research method and the research question.This paper also summarizes the related research results of tones study,including the tonal errors of inter-language from teaching materials and teaching orders,the study of tonal teaching orders of Chinese as a second language,the tonal teaching principle of Chinese as a second language and tonal perception teaching of Chinese as a second language;From the second to the eighth chapter,the paper follows the order that a textbook usually takes,and takes the teaching corpus of rising-read through tone,half-rising tone,level tone,rising tone,full-rising tone,falling tone and light tone as the research objects.Then it quantifies and analyzes the distribution of each tone in monosyllable,bi-syllable and synthesized units as both target tones and non-target tones.In addition,each tone is quantitatively analyzed as a presentation mode of the target tones(perception training,repeating training,reading training and speaking training),and as non-target tones(perception training,repeating training,reading training and speakingtraining).The paper also points out the key points of supported and the ones ignored by various tonal teaching corpus in textbooks;The ninth chapter is the conclusion.The following conclusions are drawn on the basis of quantitative analysis of the tonal teaching materials of Road to Success·Threshold:1.Judging from the distribution of the corpus,all the studied tones don't gain a key,prominent place in teaching practice.2.The training corpus for tonal reading is the largest,meaning that the textbook emphasizes reading.Meanwhile,the corpuses of perception training and observation and speaking training are relatively small.3.Sandhi training corpus in the flow of speech is the smallest.Tone training corpus is mainly composed of isolated syllables or words.This is consistent with the conclusion drawn by previous research that students are prone to mistaking the tone in continuous flow of speech.4.After the concentrated tonal practice,with the advancing of the course,monosyllabic teaching corpus would reduce,while the corpus for continuous flow of speech would increase.However,the amount of the tonal teaching corpus before concentrated practice did not exceed the one in or after the practice.5.Before the concentrated tonal practice,perception training teaching corpus is lacking in the reading corpus.Compared with before the practice,the corpuses of perception and repeating during the practice have not increased significantly.Compared with before and during the practice,reading and observation + speaking corpuses have not taken up higher proportions in the total amount after the practice.