German Students' Chinese Vowel Bias Research And Teaching Strategies

This paper takes the German students as the research object.The German students'Chinese level is primary.This study aids to find out the their Chinese vowel phonetic errors by the pronunciation test and listening,then to analyze the causes of these errors,and puts forward some corresponding teaching countermeasures,hoping this paper can help the Chinese Teachers that how to teach the German students Chinese.The first step of this thesis,is to compare the pronunciation characteristics of Chinese and German,adopting the method of comparative analysis,finding out the difficulty of German students' acquisition of Chinese vowels pronunciation.The second step is to analyze the errors.Firstly select 11 German students,collecting their Chinese vowel pronunciation;then make audio more clearly and cut out the unit vowels,compound vowels and the nasal vowels,make out the language maps by the Praat,comparing these language maps with the Chinese standard vowel pronunciation,mark out the wrong tone;next observe German students' mouth and listen to their Chinese vowel pronunciation,combined with the language maps,describe the error performance;Finally,sort the error and summe up the type of the errors.The third step is,to find the causes of the errors.This study will analyze two causes of the errors:the first one is negative transfer of German,the second one ist negative transfer of target language.The last step is,to put forward the corresponding teaching countermethods for the German students and designe the lesson plan for the teachers.