Experimental Research On Indonesian Primary Students' Acquisition Of Standard Chinese Tones

In order to improve the situation of the Chinese phonetic acquisition,the experimental phonetic way will be adopted to make a scientific analysis of the reason for which the error was produced during the process of the acquisition of the standard Chinese.Meanwhile reasons will also be analyzed through the comparative way of the differences and similarities between Chinese and Indonesian and English.Finally according to the experimental results and combining with my own teaching experience,practical teaching suggestions will be made to improve the Chinese phonetic teaching in Indonesia.According to the experimental results,the elementary students in Indonesia will make all kinds of errors which are made in different degree from the first tone to the fourth tone during their acquisition of the standard Chinese four tones.The experiment shows that Indonesian primary school students only make few errors when they acquire the Standard Chinese first tone,and nearly all are the flat tones when the speakers of the experiment pronounce the words with the first tone.Several of them make the errors with the tone pitch of 11 and 33 which are low flat tone and middle flat tone.Therefor their main errors that are made in the first tone are the starting point is lower than the normal one.The numbers of the errors that are made in the fourth tone are only second to the first tone.And the error is usually caused by the final point when the speakers are pronouncing the fourth tone making the final point higher than the normal one.And some are caused by the lower starting point or the higher final point.The speakers of the experiment make the most errors in the pronunciation of the second and the third tone especially for the third tone.The error made in the second tone is that the speakers mix it with the first and the third tone.While the error made in the third tone are the most serious as the experimenter mix it with the first,second,and the third tone.Therefore according to the experimental result Indonesian primary school Chinese learner acquire the standard Chinese tones with the sequence of the first tone,the fourth tone,the second tone and the third tone.What's more five factors for causing the experimenter making errors have been made in this thesis that are negative transfer of the native language,the target language overgeneralization,the difficulty of the Chinese phonetic itself,factors of the learners themselves and the influence of Chinese teachers.Finally according to the experimental results and combine the teaching experience of myself in Indonesia,some practical teaching suggestions are come up with to improve the Chinese phonetic teaching in Indonesia and also to decrease their errors which may made in the acquisition of the standard Chinese tones.