Review of Chinese Tones Acquisiton by Non-tonal Language Speakers Taking English as an Example

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.065How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese Tones; Native English Speakers; Second Language Acquisition

Abstract

When English speakers learn Chinese, we will find that a very important reason for their non-standard Chinese is that they cannot pronounce the correct Chinese tones. Learning tonal languages can be a challenge for native speakers of tonal languages. This paper mainly summarizes the research on the learning of Chinese tones by native English speakers over the past 20 years, shows the defects existing in the learning of Chinese tones by native English speakers, and confirms that native English speakers can acquire Chinese tones, and difficulty in acquiring Chinese tones. It is hoped that the teaching methods of Chinese tones can be continuously improved, so that it will be beneficial for native English speakers to learn Chinese.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiwen Song
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - Review of Chinese Tones Acquisiton by Non-tonal Language Speakers Taking English as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 322
EP  - 325
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.065
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.065
ID  - Song2022
ER  -