An Experimental Study On Marcellin College Chinese Learners’ Acquisition Of Chinese Retroflex Zh Ch Sh

This article focus on the performance and acquisition of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh of 39 Chinese learners from Marcellin College,Melbourne,Australia,through phonetical experiment,this study concludes the following three points:Firstly,After analyzing the errors of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh of 39 Chinese learners from Marcellin College,it is found that the pronunciation of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh are all influenced by tones,the Chinese affricate zh are not influenced by the followed vowels,while the pronunciation of Chinese fricative sh are influenced by tones and followed vowels at the same time.The performance of second and third tone of each vowel group is not as good as the first and fourth tone vowel group.The pronunciation of the combination of zh and/e/,sh and/u/are the difficulties for them.Secondly,after describing and analyzing the errors of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh of 39 Chinese learners from Marcellin College,it is found that the learners’ acquisition of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh showed certain regular and irregular,also,as they are exposed to Chinese longer and improvements in Chinese,their acquisition of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh remain stable.Meanwhile,the level of the difficulty of Chinese affricate fricative retroflex zh ch sh are not same for Australian high school Chinese learners,the Chinese affricate ch is more difficult than the affricate zh and fricative ch,Chinese second language teachers need to focus more on this.