Abstract
Supra-segmental phoneme is one of the most important factors in distinguishing meanings in English. Due to the influence of Sichuandialect, many students inSichuantend to speak English without noticing the striking features in the continuous speech such as word stress, liaison, loss of explosion, or elision. The monotonous tones and pitches result in their non-fluency in the communication. Based on the theory of contrast analysis and error analysis, this paper analyzes the common errors in their pronunciation and the reasons so as to make some suggestions on how to teach and learn English pronunciation.
Highlights
Language acquisition strategies have been the concerns of linguists and language teachers for many years
In order to find better ways for learners to learn foreign languages, linguists compare the differences when young children learn mother tongue and when adults learn foreign languages.By observing children’s mother tongue learning process, linguists find that the differences lie in that children start from the very beginning while adults have already had comparatively systematic knowledge of mother tongue before they start to learn foreign languages, learning foreign languages seems more difficult for them.What kind of influence would mother tongue have on foreign language acquisition become the concern of linguists and language teachers
The contrast analysis hypothesis was put forward in the 1950s ( Fries,G./ Lado,R), based on the transfer theory which insists that mother tongue habits would influence foreign language acquisition, that is, language transfer defined by linguists
Summary
Language acquisition strategies have been the concerns of linguists and language teachers for many years. The contrast analysis hypothesis was put forward in the 1950s ( Fries,G./ Lado,R), based on the transfer theory which insists that mother tongue habits would influence foreign language acquisition, that is, language transfer defined by linguists. It is positive transfer, if learner’s native language helps in learning the second language,otherwise,the negative transfer. As early as the schools of the ancient world, teachers were writing down contrastive observations about the languages students knew and the languages they wished to learn(Kelly, 1969). Based on the theory of contrast analysis and error analysis, this paper analyzes the common errors in their pronunciation and the reasons in order to make some suggestions on how to teach and learn English pronunciation
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