Case Research Of Spanish Students' Tone Error

This article focus on research Spanish Chinese language learner's pronunciation performance about the four tones in Chinese language,all the 10 experiment subjects come from IES Severo Ochoa in Madrid.Under the help of Adobe Audition and Parrat these two software's help,we got pitch contour of all the ten experiment subjects' pronunciation during reading one and tow-syllable words' tones.From the analyses we found some regular mistakes of these learners.We could classify them into two categories--pitch-changing error and tone number error.About the first category,we found learners incline to pronounce rising tone in some none-rising tones,and pronounce none-changing tones in some tones which require changing.And for the second category,we found that most of these experiment subjects,their pitch while reading is lower than Chinese tones requires,and pitches change range is smaller than the right pronunciation,and what more,we found some of the pitch numbers when they speak,the tone numbers are not exist in these four tones of Chinese language.So based on what we found,we think the causes of these errors might be their native languages'negative transfer influence,teacher's teaching deficiency and text book's content insufficiency about tones.In the last part,we made some suggestions for these change-needing parts.With all respects,hope this article's research could make some contribution for the related area.