The Standard and Teaching of Variant Pronunciation Words in Junior High School

Abstract

At the present stage of school education, it is strongly advocated to speak Mandarin and write standard words. However, the existence of much variant pronunciation in the language obviously hinders the development of the work and this also brings difficulties to teachers 'teaching work. This paper analyzed the new words in Chinese textbooks of junior middle schools, classified new words with variant pronunciation through statistics and summarized their distributing characteristics. Then, according to the factors and distributing characteristics of the variant pronunciation, it put forward some reasonable suggestions for teachers, which include distinguishing meanings with different pronunciation, distinguishing properties of words with different pronunciations, distinguishing styles with different pronunciations, teaching according to curriculum goals, teaching according to knowledge systems and teaching according to regularities and habits in teaching. It displayed the opinion that if teachers establish a knowledge structure system for students according to the curriculum goals and students also learn according to their own regularities and habits, the normalization and teaching of variant pronunciation will be greatly improved and the students' ability to read words with variant pronunciation will be certainly improved.