Experimental Research On Moroccan Students’ Errors Of Mandarin Tones

In this thesis,20 Chinese learners from the Confucius Institute of the University of Hassan II in Morocco are selected as the research subjects.Tone production experiment and tone perception experiment are carried out by using phonetic experiment method and phonetic listening method respectively.The experimental results are visualized by using interlanguage theory and tone pattern theory to analyze the tone errors of Moroccan Chinese learners.Try to find out the causes of Moroccan Chinese learners’ pronunciation acquisition errors,and then put forward the corresponding teaching suggestions.First of all,the tone perception experiment is conducted in the form of questionnaire,and20 tone perception samples are obtained.The error rate and error type of tone perception of testers are analyzed.Each sample is 24 groups of monosyllabic tone plus 32 groups of bisyllabic tone.Then,20 tone output samples were collected by recording,and the tone output samples were processed by Adobe Audition and Praat Chinese version.The fundamental frequency of each sample was extracted,and the fundamental frequency data was transformed into T-degree value by using the T value formula proposed by Shi Feng,and the tone pattern map was drawn.Analysis of the tester’s tone production error rate and error types.The experimental conclusions are as follows :(1)The order of perceived acquisition difficulty of monosyllabic tone is T2>T1>T3>T4,and the order of pronunciation difficulty is T2>T4>T3>T1.(2)The order of difficulty in perceptual acquisition of bisyllable tones is T2>T4>T1>T3,and the order of difficulty in pronunciation is T2>T3>T4>T1.(3)It is easy to confuse T1 and T2 in the monosyllable perception experiment,and it is easy to confuse T2 and T3 in the pronunciation experiment.In perception and pronunciation experiments,T2 is prone to bias into T1.(4)The tone pitch of Moroccan Chinese learners is about 44;The tone value of the second sound is about 224,the starting point T value of the first half of the third sound is higher,and the second half is not up,and the tone value is 313;Four tone pitch is about 52.(5)The perception ability of monosyllabic and disyllabic tone will increase with the improvement of Chinese level,and the single pronunciation ability will not.(6)There is an imbalance in the subjects’ errors in the pitch combination.The error rate of tone combination with tone change of 21 is higher than that of tone change of 35.According to the experimental results,the author analyzes the causes of Moroccan Chinese learners ’ tone errors from the perspective of mother tongue transfer,teachers and textbooks and students ’ individual tone awareness,and puts forward three targeted teaching strategies :(1)Strengthening tone awareness;(2)Tone teaching runs through;(3)Repeated and targeted exercises.The author also around these three teaching strategies put forward the use of Praat feedback teaching method,gesture method,from easy to difficult,step by step tone practice method,increase 21 tone teaching method and teaching principles of tone learning and consolidation.The innovation of this thesis is following the trend of national Chinese teaching research,making an experimental analysis of Moroccan Chinese learners ’ tone from the perspective of tone perception and pronunciation,which makes up for the blank of Moroccan Chinese tone’teaching research.